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 Christopher Brookmyre novels.
Tropes
- The Caper: Has a brilliant heist involving clowns and banks. And a bus, or am I getting confused?
- Pregnant Hostage: One of several signs the supposed bad guys are gentlemen. Except Mr. Athena.
- Revision: The events of the previous Angel X novel, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, 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.
- Serious Business: Missing the football.
