Book description
At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking,
womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom
secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him
understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the
virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department
provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw
his mission off course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner
enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating
mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are
supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. Irvine
Welsh is the author of eight previous novels and four books of shorter
fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.
