Bleeding Hearts

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Bleeding Hearts
Author Ian Rankin (writing as "Jack Harvey")
Country Scotland
Language English
Genre(s) Thriller novel
Publisher Orion Books
Publication date 1994
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 416 pages
ISBN ISBN 0-7528-4332-X
Preceded by Witch Hunt
Followed by Blood Hunt

Bleeding Hearts is a 1994 novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. It is the second novel he wrote under this name. For the plant known as Bleeding Hearts, see Dicentra spectabilis.

[edit] Plot summary

Michael Weston is a professional assassin, but he also suffers from haemophilia. The wealthy father of a girl he killed by mistake years ago has sworn vengeance on the killer, hiring a private detective (Hoffer) to track him down.

Rankin has said that he wrote this book under the influence of Martin Amis' novel Money and that Weston was influenced by that novel's protagonist John Self.