Crime (novel)
ISBN 0-224-08053-9 | | |
| Preceded by | Filth | |
|---|---|---|
Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, Filth.
Plot summary
Ray Lennox is a
The next morning, Lennox finds himself craving more alcohol and goes to a bar with Trudi where they have an argument, which causes Trudi to angrily leave the bar. Lennox continues drinking heavily. Soon afterwards, he meets two women, Starry and Robyn, in a different bar and they all go back to Robyn's flat, where they drink more alcohol and take cocaine. They are soon joined by two men, Lance Dearing and Johnnie, and a fight breaks out a short time later when Lennox sees Johnnie is sexually assaulting Tianna, Robyn's ten-year-old daughter. Lennox incapacitates Johnnie and struggles with Dearing, who ultimately leaves the flat with everyone except Lennox and Tianna, who have locked themselves in a bathroom.
The next morning, Lennox wakes in the bathroom and receives a telephone call from Robyn, who urges him to take Tianna to a man called Chet Lewis in Bologna before the call is interrupted by Dearing, who tries unsuccessfully to pacify Lennox. Lennox instead leaves the apartment with Tianna and travels to a local police station, where he is shocked to find Dearing is in police uniform and is working at the reception desk. Lennox flees with Tianna and hires a car to take her to Chet as Robyn instructed.
Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornets' nest of paedophiles, just like the one that had haunted him on a similar case in Edinburgh.
Reviews
- Michael Wood. "The Not-So-Good Cop". The New York Review of Books.
TV adaptation
On 23 July 2020, BritBox announced that Irvine Welsh would be adapting Crime as a six-part miniseries for streaming service.[1] The 6-episode series co-written by Welsh and Dean Cavanagh and starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox premiered on BritBox on 18 November 2021.[2]
References
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (April 2009) |
- ^ "BritBox announces a set of debut originals". Royal Television Society. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
- ^ Pingitore, Silvia (19 November 2021). "From Trainspotting to the TV series of Crime: the Irvine Welsh interview". the-shortlisted.co.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2021.