by Ian Rankin
This is the latest Rankin book.
It sees Rebus return to work in a temporary capacity. He has been brought in because a gangster Rebus had tried to jail previously now seems to have had his life threatened (a shot was aimed at him in his house). He has received a threatening letter also. Interestingly a London lawyer has been murdered and has received the same letter. How could the two be connected.
While Rebus, Clark and Malcolm Fox are trying to work on these crimes (who would have thought Fox would willingly be working with Rebus??) there is a team from Headquarters working on tracking the activities of a major crime boss who seems to be seeking an associate who ran off with some of their drugs. The two investigations seem to be tripping over each other.
Rebus uses his skills/history to be able to talk to the threatened gangster and another young man who longs to take over the territory. They seem to be united in trying to keep the third criminal out of their territory, or are they making overtures to work with the third guy to push one of the others out.
Then the son of the third gangster is killed and it is feared an all out turf war will occur.
Rebus, Clark and Fox solve the crimes much to the chagrin of the HQ team. It turns out there might be a cop imbedded in the criminal gang. They are not sure who he is, and also wonder if they might be dealing with a cop who has turned to the dark side.
This was a good book. It provides great character development. It was interesting, perhaps puzzling to find that from going to investigate and try to take Rebus down Fox now willingly works with Rebus and vice versa. I am not sure either of them would so readily adapt to this new relationship.
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