Alban McGill is a member of the wealthy Scottish Wopuld family, who have built a fortune on a game called Empire! (which resembles Risk, and involves taking over the world). Alban has abdicated his place in the family, and has been slumming for the past few years, working as a forester, hanging out ...
I am a huge Iain Banks fan, as you can see from my bookshelf... so this book was seriously disappointing. He's usually so full of energy and wacky ideas, but for once he's on autopilot. As several of the other reviewers point out, he's recycled a lot of material from The Crow Road. Unfortunately, it...
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