When the brutally beaten body of a young man is found in an alley, Eastvale's Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his coleague, Detective Constable Susan Gay, have no choice but to lock up the three Pakistani youths who seemingly started it all after an argument in a pub. But they're out in no time and Banks is in big trouble with the Chief for risking a racial incident with the arrest. Ordered to run the investigation from his desk and leave the legwork to others, Banks' hands are tied and his temper is flaring.
But when disturbing facts start emerging about the victim, Banks can't simply sit at his desk -- and he soon alientates himself from both the investigation and his own department. While his twenty-year marriage crumbles around him, he tries to make sense of a gray world grown ever more bleak and sinister, as he follows a treacherous trail of hate, greed, and twisted philosophy that leads to the darkest pits of man's inhumanity to man.
New York Times Book Review
Sociologically acute...We may still be in the gentle folds of the Yorkshire countryside, but the view doesn't look so pretty anymore.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Crime & Mystery
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Avon
Author : Robinson, Peter
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :1998-12-01
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : Mass Market Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0380794764
ISBN-13 : 9780380794768
Item weight : 0.4 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 4.1 in x 6.7 in
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