By way of a bad way to turn 30, Angelique de Xavia gets caught in the middle of a surreal bank robbery, and finds her loyalties sorely tested. And that's just the start of her and everyone else's troubles. Also provides a quick crash course for outsiders in the way Protestant/Catholic divides in Scotland align with football fandom. The second of the three De Xavia Creator/ChristopherBrookmyre novels.

!!Tropes

* TheCaper: Has a brilliant heist involving clowns and banks. [[Film/TheDarkKnight And a bus, or am I getting confused?]]
%%* FairCop: Angelique de Xavia
%%* GentlemanThief: Jarry and Co.
%%* IknowYouKnowIKnow: Subverted
%%* {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Athena.
%%* MonsterClown: Subverted and then some
* PregnantHostage: One of several signs the supposed bad guys are gentlemen. Except Mr. Athena.
* {{Revision}}: The events of the previous Angel X novel, ''Literature/ABigBoyDidItAndRanAway'', are retconned to have taken place on September 10, 2001 - explaining why what would otherwise be an enormous news story got little traction inside Scotland and none at all outside it.
* SeriousBusiness: Missing the football.
%%* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Played with and then some.
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