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| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat - spreadeagled; cross-like on he floor between two burned-down candles; a five-pointed star daubed on the wall abov. Just another dead addict; unitl John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference; treachery; deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to the tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like murder every day; about a seductive danger he can almost taste; appealing to the darkest corners of his mind.
