Bleeding Hearts
This article is about the novel. For the plant known as Bleeding Hearts, see Dicentra spectabilis.
Bleeding Hearts is a 1994 crime novel by Ian Rankin, under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. It is the second novel he wrote under this name.
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's novel Money and that Weston was influenced by that novel's protagonist John Self.
References
Podcasts:
Bleeding Hearts
Waking up from another dream about you and me
I have to pinch myself to know I'm still alive
You kill me so slowly
Without taking a breath I will fall asleep
I feel like I am drowning in all these tears
I feel like sufficating after all these years
I don't want to fade away
I don't want to become another memory
Waking up without you is the hardest thing to do
I feel like I don't have any insides
I slowly die, then I look up at the sky
And ask "why do I feel like this?"
I'm bleeding internally
I'm bleeding save me
I'm bleeding internally