The International Bestseller from the author The New York Times
called blisteringly funny -- it's the wild and wooly crew from
Trainspotting back for one last adventure
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** You don't need to have seen the blockbuster movie--nor read the
earlier mega-bestselling books--to get what's going on in Dead Men's
Trousers Four no-longer-young men who constantly think back to their
bawdy, drug-filled youth together on the streets of Edinburgh, decide
they want to join forces for one last caper.
Careful what you wish for...
Manages a sort of ragged glory, a life-affirming comic energy . . .
A whooping last hurrah for the Trainspotting gang.
--The Guardian
Crackles with idiomatic energy and brio. --Publishers Weekly
Mark Renton is finally a success. He now makes significant money
managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel
rooms, and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with life.
Then he runs into his old partner in crime, Frank Begbie, from whom he'd
been hiding for years. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have
reinvented himself as a celebrated artist in Los Angeles, and doesn't
seem interested in revenge.
Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, Sick Boy and Spud are intrigued to learn
that their old friends are back in town, and concoct a new scheme for
them all . . .
Which is when things start to go horribly wrong. The four men, driven by
their personal histories and addictions, circle each other, confused,
angry, and desperate. One of these four will not survive . . . Which one
is wearing Dead Men's Trousers?
Fast and furious, scabrously funny, and weirdly moving, this is a
spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.
