After his foray into Miami with *The Sexual Life of Siamese Twins*, Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the cornerstone of his literary universe, around which a cast of characters orbit, their paths intertwining in the successive novels set in the city.
Here, the protagonist is an old acquaintance, Juice Terry Lawson, who had already made an appearance in *Cola and Porno*. Let's summarize his credentials: a taxi driver by trade, but also a pool hustler and tireless seducer of attractive women, a drug dealer, the manager of a sauna run by mobsters, a sex addict, and an amateur porn actor who shoots low-budget films for the SickBoy website.
And while a terrifying hurricane threatens to devastate Scotland, Terry finds himself embroiled in a variety of adventures: he runs into a former lover at a funeral; he helps the simple-minded Wee Jonty search for his missing girlfriend,...read more







