Cassie McCullagh

Oh, yes, yeah.

And given his past with heroin, he's going, is this a good thing or a bad thing?

And then when he gets to Berlin, then he does lose the kidney.

And so the whole organ smuggling business, to me, was never completely explained properly.

Totally.

Did you find that?

We never find out why this kidney is so important.

We've got an underworld figure who wants a kidney for reasons that, unless I've missed something and never clearly explained, I did like the fact that the first attempt to smuggle...

the kidney involved in a little accident and the dog ate the kidney.

It's a bit like the dog ate the homework, isn't it?

And the dog eats the kidney.

Exactly.

I mean, that...

really compounds some of the problems with the plotting in this book.

It is hard work.

You know, I claim Scottish ancestry.

I have some blood in me, so I'm meant to have a head start.

But I found this really, really difficult to read because he writes phonetically as these people would talk.

And a thick Scottish accent is hard to understand at the best of times.

And he nails it perfectly on the page here.