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Original Title:	Filth
ISBN:	0393318680 (ISBN13: 9780393318685)
Edition Language:	English URL http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=6491
Characters:	Bruce Robertson
Setting:	Edinburgh, Scotland

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With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs. The last thing Robertson needs is a messy, racially fraught murder, even if it means overtime—and the opportunity to clinch the promotion he craves. Then there's that nutritionally demanding (and psychologically acute) intestinal parasite in his gut. Yes, things are going badly for this utterly corrupt tribune of the law, but in an Irvine Welsh novel nothing is ever so bad that it can't get a whole lot worse. . .

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Title	:	Filth
Author	:	Irvine Welsh
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 393 pages
Published	:	September 17th 1998 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Mystery. Crime. Novels. Thriller. Dark

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"Filth," by Irivine Welsh certainly lived up to its name. Pretty filthy, in several ways the word can be used, from beginning to end.It's told in first person by the main character, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of the Leith Police, who's approaching middle age and is one of the detectives competing for the single available promotion to Detective Inspector. He feels he's entitled to it because he gave up a few years of rank by working in Australia when his wife Carole wanted to live near

Loved this. Read it when i was in 4th year so I was maybe 15 or 16.Film was amazing too.

A good book, following the exploits of the world's second worst police officer through the things he does.Unfortunately the main character is so difficult to relate to (he does the most awful things for no reason other than he can/wants to, and I can't understand that) that by the time of his trip to Amsterdam you're left numb. The constant series of horrors (which are entertaining and shocking to begin with) become something that you are accustomed to, the horror you were feeling at his

3.5 starsOne of my mottoes aboot the job is: better you wasting some cunt elses time than some cunt wasting your time.- D.S. Bruce Robertson* * *In a sense we are together because nothing, space, time, distance whatever, can break the delicious communion between us.- Carole

Wow, the book definitely lives up to it's title "Filth"! Detective Sgt. Bruce Robertson is one despicable bastard! He takes drugs, abuses his police power, is addicted to pornography, takes bribes, masterbates compulsively, is a sex fiend, has a nasty bit of eczema below the belt & has a tapeworm in his gut! D.S. Robertson is a filthy human being, he back stabs his friends & co-workers, tells extremely harmful and deceitful lies to women to sleep with them and he stinks "literally"! Once

This has echoes of Martin Amis's "Money" in it's presentation of a truly vile lead character: Bruce Robertson, is a scheming,racist, sexist and bigoted Detective Sergeant, investigating the murder of a black man outside a nightclub. Not that he has much time for solving crime; the constant bouts of: heavy drinking, porn, cocaine abuse, skiving work and his serial philandering occupy most of this. But, this is Welsh and you wouldn't expect deities and social heirs and graces.There's plenty of

actually it's 4,5 stars but 4 would be a disservice anyways very vulgar obscene clever fascinating and pure gross - not a treat for everyone but I don't know why I really liked the anti - hero laughed at his pathetic schemes and jokes and couldn't put the book down. it's not 5 stars since the tapeworm trick was kinda below the expectations and the plot itself was quite simple and not that original.still, it was so much fun!