The festival is in full swing - and a killer hides among the crowds... It is August in Edinburgh, and beneath streets packed with tourists, a body is found in one of the city's ancient underground passages. Marks on the corpse cause Detective Inspector John Rebus to suspect sectarian involvement - and dread the prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city filled to bursting point.
But when the victim turns out to be the son of a notorious gangster, the old currents of violence stir in the shadows, pitting Rebus in a race against time to stop them spilling out...
'Ian Rankin is a genius' LEE CHILD
'The king of crime fiction' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Rankin is a phenomenon'SPECTATOR
'Rebus is one of British crime writing's greatest characters'DAILY MAIL
Reissue of an earlier Rebus novel