'Reader beware ...'

[Dave Monroe]

Thomas Pynchon's fiction is like a drug, plunging the addict into a
shadowy world of paranoia and conspiracy. As an earnest young student,
Ian Rankin became hopelessly hooked. And still is. The crime writer
pays tribute to his hero - 'the greatest, wildest, most infuriating
author of his generation'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/18/fiction.ianrankin