The Hanging Garden
Drugs. Extortion. Slavery. Organized crime is fighting for a hold on John Rebus's peaceful Scotland. And when Rebus rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution, he breaks a policeman's golden rule to never get personally involved in a case. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi...
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Drugs. Extortion. Slavery. Organized crime is fighting for a hold on John Rebus's peaceful Scotland. And when Rebus rescues a young Bosnian girl forced into prostitution, he breaks a policeman's golden rule to never get personally involved in a case. Add to that the hunt for an elderly Nazi accused of slaughtering an entire French village, and Rebus wonders just how evil humans can be. Until his own daughter is mortally injured as a gangland warning for him to back off. Then even a dedicated cop like Rebus might make a deal with the devil to find the culprit. Not for justice. For revenge.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312617158 (0312617151)
ASIN: 312617151
Publish date: January 5th 2010
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Hard Boiled,
Scotland
Series: Inspector Rebus (#9)
Rebus couldn't get so excited. The whole enterprise had shown him a simple truth: no vacuum. Where you had society, you had criminals. No belly without an underbelly. It's just that kind of chipper optimism that keeps readers coming back to the Rebus books, isn't it? The events in The Hanging Garden...
bookshelves: spring-2011, britain-scotland, published-1998, mystery-thriller, fraudio Read from March 23 to 24, 2011
Bloody is the word for this one. Very bloody.
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