Book description
Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form
after we die, and is that form capable of communicating with the world
of the living?...Aye, right. That was Jack Parlabane's stance on the
matter, anyway. But this was before he found himself in the more
compromising position of being not only dead himself, but worse: dead
with an exclusive still to file. From his position on high, Parlabane
relates the events leading up to his demise, largely concerning the
efforts of charismatic psychic Gabriel Lafayette to reconcile the
scientific with the spiritual by submitting to controlled laboratory
tests. Parlabane is brought in as an observer, due to his capacities as
both a sceptic and an expert on deception, but he soon finds his
certainties crumbling and his assumptions turned upside down as he
encounters phenomena for which he can deduce no rational explanation.
Perhaps, in a world in which he can find himself elected rector of an
esteemed Scottish university, anything truly is possible. One thing he
knows for certain, however: Death is not the end - it's the ultimate
undercover assignment. Christopher Brookmyre was a journalist before
becoming a full time novelist. He is the winner of the 2007 Glenfiddich
Spirit of Scotland Award, and his novel All Fun and Games Until Somebody
Loses an Eye won the 2006 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for Comic
Fiction.
