Ian Rankin
The Falls

2001 | Nakladatelství Orion

AROHawken Trent. So polite. So sweet. Such an upstanding young man.A virgin, too, I hear. He never gets naughty with a girl. Probably because Jesus told him not to.And now here he is, trying to be the hero by protecting another girl from me.He calls me a bully. Irrational. Unreasonable. A criminal. He can call me anyth…ing he wants, I've heard worse.And he can try to stand between me and my money, but he's never had to fight for food. That rich, clean, school boy doesn't have what it takes.HAWKEI surprised her. You should've seen her face.Just because I don't have a record, honey, doesn't mean I'm clean. It just means I'm better at not getting caught.That is until I realize I might've actually gone too far this time.She's there. I'm there. The scene of the crime.It's dark. The police show up.We have no choice. We run. Down High Street, into Quinn's bake shop, and I pull her through the entrance to the old speakeasy that everyone forgot was here decades ago.The door locks, the cops circle the building, never knowing we're right here, and I'm hidden in plain sight, indefinitely, with someone's who's awful.Mean. Rough. Dirty.A thief. A delinquent.Until one night, lost in all of these rooms together, I don't see any of those things anymore.She's smart. Daring. Soft . . . Irresistible.*FALLS BOYS is a standalone, new adult romance suitable for readers 18+. It contains harsh language, violence, and sexual situations. Reading the Fall Away series prior to this is helpful, but not necessary. AROHawken Trent. So polite. So sweet. Such an upstanding young man.A virgin, too, I hear. He never gets naughty with a girl. Probably because Jesus told him not to.And now here he is, trying to be the… hero by protecting another girl from me.He calls me a bully. Irrational. Unreasonable. A criminal. He can call me anything he wants, I've heard worse.And he can try to stand between me and my money, but he's never had to fight for food. That rich, clean, school boy doesn't have what it takes.HAWKEI surprised her. You should've seen her face.Just because I don't have a record, honey, doesn't mean I'm clean. It just means I'm better at not getting caught.That is until I realize I might've actually gone too far this time.She's there. I'm there. The scene of the crime.It's dark. The police show up.We have no choice. We run. Down High Street, into Quinn's bake shop, and I pull her through the entrance to the old speakeasy that everyone forgot was here decades ago.The door locks, the cops circle the building, never knowing we're right here, and I'm hidden in plain sight, indefinitely, with someone's who's awful.Mean. Rough. Dirty.A thief. A delinquent.Until one night, lost in all of these rooms together, I don't see any of those things anymore.She's smart. Daring. Soft . . . Irresistible.*FALLS BOYS is a standalone, new adult romance suitable for readers 18+. It contains harsh language, violence, and sexual situations. Reading the Fall Away series prior to this is helpful, but not necessary.

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Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin je skotský spisovatel detektivních románů, proslavil se zejména sérií knih o edinburském inspektorovi Rebusovi. Vystudoval literaturu na University of Edinburgh. Chtěl napsat dizertaci o Murielu Sparkovi, ale nedokončil ji. Žil poté v Londýně a na francouzském venkově, ale nakonec se vrátil do Edinburghu, kde žije dodnes, ve "spisovatelské čtvrti" nedaleko J. K. Rowlingové, Alexander McCall Smitha a Kate Atkinsonové. Inspektor John Rebus se prvně objevil v románu Knots and Crosses roku 1987, byť ještě nešlo o klasickou detektivku, stejně jako v druhém románu Hide and Seek z roku 1991. Ale časem vznikla typická detektivní série, k roku 2015 čítající dvacet "rebusovských" knih. Roku 2009 v románu The Complaints uvedl na scénu nového detektiva Malcoma Foxe. Od roku 2012 nechává Rebuse a Foxe vyšetřovat společně. V roce 2013 napsal spolu s Markem Thomsonem, uměleckým ředitelem Royal Lyceum Theatre, svou první divadelní hru Dark Road. Napsal i komiks Dark Entries. V tomto článku byl použit překlad textu z článku Ian Rankin na anglické Wikipedii.

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