do i miss something here . this adaptation have everything that brookmyres first novel have . everything apart from the story and the laugh and the black humour and the political intrigue and the characterisation and the plot and and some semblance of sense . spoiler while godamnawful and from begin to end . they make a mockery of the plot and they have a romance between parablane and a cop and and what be that all about and dr slaughter be portray a a bystander and and who the hell be annette crosby suppose to be . it look like they have make a three hour adaptation and then chop it down to 90 minute . ( even though the 90 minute seem to last forever . ) please and please and do not do this to any other of brookmyres book and ( especially country of the blind . ) .