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Sharrow, a cynical, emotionally scarred aristocrat who once led a personality-bonded combat squadron, is warned by her cousin that the cult who killed her mother when she was very young has obtained a Hunting Passport against her, a legal license to murder for a year and a day. There are only two ways out; survive the year, or return what her long-ago female ancestor stole from the cult: the last Lazy Gun, a whimsical weapon of destruction.
She reassembles her [[Five
Like much Banks, {{spoiler|there's a [[Downer Ending]] in which [[Kill
There's a epilogue not printed in the novel which Iain Banks published online; it's available [http://www.culturelist.org/cdr/article.cfm?id=142 here]. It leaves the story with a small heartwarming touch at the end; without it, it's fairly bleak.
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* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: {{spoiler|[[Large Ham|Chrolesser]]}} is introduced as the architect behind the book's events. It very quickly turns out that {{spoiler|he's just a puppet, covering for [[The Man Behind the Man|Geis.]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]}}
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Sharrow
** [[The Lancer]]: Cernuij
** [[The Big Guy]]: Dloan - a Type 2, the [[Gentle Giant]]; and [[The Quiet One]].
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Miz
** [[The Chick]]: Zefla - the [[Sexy Lawyer]], [[Genius Ditz]] and [[Hard
* [[Groin Attack]]: Sharrow takes great pleasure in kicking the gatekeeper monk at the Sea House in the nuts as she leaves. He kind of deserves it, though.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: literally; Sharrow's sidearm is a FrintArms HandCannon
* [[Kill
* [[Last of Her Kind]]: Sharrow is the last of the female line of the Dascen family.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The Lazy Gun.
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* [[Parental Favoritism]]: Sharrow is their father's ungrateful favorite, much to the hatred of her half-sister, Breyguhn.
* [[Psychic Link]]: Sharrow and the rest of her combat squadron (originally eight) were linked together with a synchroneurobonding (SNB) virus.
* [[Putting the Band Back Together]]: Sharrow must reassemble her [[Five
* [[Single Line of Descent]]: Sharrow is the last of the female line of the Dascen family, which the Huhsz cult has pledged to wipe out.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: Sharrow as a child and teenager; filled with resentment about the death of her mother and indulged by a father she had no respect for due to his losing ways, the child Sharrow sounds like an obnoxious little brat. Volunteering for the Five Per Cent War (to spite Geis, she joins the other side) cured that ... at quite a cost.
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