"If I'd known it was going to be my last book, I'd have been quite disappointed that I'm going out with a relatively minor piece."
The Quarry is about somebody dying. The terrible irony is that when he was writing this book, Iain Banks did not know that he was dying. In the event he died soon after publication, after writing close to 30 novels, some literary, some science-fiction and some gothic. His many admirers will miss him;