- Detective and mystery stories, Police, Inspector Rebus (Fictitious character), Fiction
The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush and Putin, which explains why he's manning an abandoned police station when a call comes in.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Ian Rankin
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 472
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio, BCA, Orion Books
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- French, Swedish, English
- ISBN
- 9780752887760
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