Westwind (novel)

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Westwind
1st edition
Author	Ian Rankin
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Genre	Thriller
Publisher	Barrie & Jenkins
Publication date	1990
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	224 pp
ISBN	0-7126-3626-9

Westwind is a 1990 novel written by Ian Rankin, and is one of the author's earliest works. The author has explained on his website that he was not happy with the outcome and unlike other early works by Rankin, it has not been reissued.^[1]

Plot summary

The Zephyr computer system monitors the progress of the United Kingdom's only spy satellite. When this system briefly goes offline, the book's main characters Hepton and Dreyfuss (the sole survivor of a space shuttle crash) have the only key to the enigma that must be solved if both men are to stay alive.^[2]

Author's comments

Rankin writes on his website that the book was an attempt at a conspiracy-theory novel, set partly in the USA (a country he had never visited) and with a lot of humour. The editor of the time did not like it, and had him make many changes - taking out the humour and the US settings and by the end he felt the book had ceased to be his. Rankin also says he doubts he could read it today.^[1]

Release details

1991, UK, Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd; Large Print Ed edition (September 1991) (ISBN 0708925057, ISBN 978-0-7089-2505-8), Pub date ? hardback (First edition) Hardcover: 480 pages

Footnotes

References

Rankin, Ian (1990). Westwind. Ulverscroft. ISBN 0-7089-2505-7.

v t e Works by Ian Rankin

Novels	The Flood (1986) Knots and Crosses (1987) Watchman (1988) Westwind (1990) Hide and Seek (1991) Tooth and Nail (1992) Strip Jack (1992) The Black Book (1993) Witch Hunt (1993) Mortal Causes (1994) Bleeding Hearts (1994) Let It Bleed (1995) Blood Hunt (1995) Black & Blue (1997) The Hanging Garden (1998) Dead Souls (1999) Set in Darkness (2000) The Falls (2001) Resurrection Men (2002) A Question of Blood (2003) Fleshmarket Close (2004) The Naming of the Dead (2006) Exit Music (2007) Doors Open (2008) A Cool Head (2009, Quick Reads) The Complaints (2009) The Impossible Dead (2011) Standing in Another Man's Grave (2012)

Short story collections	A Good Hanging and Other Stories (1992) Beggars Banquet (2002)

Non-fiction	Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey (2005) Jackie Leven Said (2005, With Jackie Leven)

Graphic novels	Dark Entries (2009)

Plays	Dark Road

Short stories	An Afternoon (1984) Voyeurism (1985) Colony (1986) Trip Trap (1992) Marked For Death (1992) Well Shot (1993) Someone Got to Eddie (1994) A Deep Hole (1994) Adventures in Babysitting (1995) Natural Selection (1996) Auld Lang Syne (1997) Principles of Accounts (1997) Death is Not the End (1998) The Hanged Man (2000) Saint Nicked (2003) Soft Spot (2005) Not Just Another Saturday (2005) Sinner: Justified (2006)

Related articles	Inspector Rebus Quick Reads Jackie Leven University of Edinburgh Gold Dagger

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