Book description
Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops
covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of
misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a
brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist.
A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate
unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government
offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body
count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees
Fox in mortal danger. Ian Rankin is the internationally bestselling
author of the Inspector Rebus and Detective Malcolm Fox novels, as well
as a string of standalone thrillers. His books have been translated into
36 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. Ian is the
recipient of four CWA DAGGER AWARDS and in 2004, won America's
celebrated EDGAR AWARD. He is also the recipient of honorary degrees
from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Hull and Edinburgh and
received the OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize
in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two
sons.
