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Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life � and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he�s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies � and, most alarmingly, his former self � Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband�s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel � ultra violent but curiously redemptive � and it marks the return of one of modern fiction�s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.