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Synopsis

A Jack Harvey Novel

The death of a TV reporter from a single bullet wound to the heart - a dramatic news story, an unsolved crime... but the twist in the tale is that this time it's the man who fired the bullet who's asking all the questions.

Michael Weston wants to know how come the police were on his tail so quickly. What was it about this journalist that got someone rattled enough to want her permanently out of the picture? Might she just have been a stooge, the job a set-up arranged to see him safely behind bars? His first task is to find the writer of his pay cheque, the second is to make sure he doesn't get caught. Because one thing's for certain - the longer he sticks around to find out, the bigger the risk of making mistakes, revealing his cover and mabe even losing his life.

Press Reviews

Rankin is without doubt Britain's best crime novelist - Express

All the tension and cleverness we expect in his thrillers - Manchester Evening News

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About the Author

Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a Ph.D. in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel, Knots & Crosses, was published in 1987 and the Rebus books are now translated into twenty-one languages and bestsellers on several continents.

Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow and is a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award, as well as receiving three Crime Writers' Association Daggers - including the prestigeous Diamond Dagger in 2005. Ian won the Edgar Award for Resurrection Men. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from the universtities of Abertay, St Andrews and Edinburgh.

A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. Ian recently 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.