Forced to retire from the department under a cloud of suspicion, Detective Colin Harpur's colleague, Hubert Scott, concocts a scheme that will clear his name--one that is related to the kidnapping of underworld informant Bernard "Tenderness" Mellick's eleven-year-old son
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'In his steely, unforgiving style, Mr James has written another sobering morality tale' (New York Times Book Review)
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Masterly... there is nothing else quite like this series... all delivered in a ferociously poetic voice that is uniquely Bill James.
The fourth in the brilliant Harpur & Iles series from the crime writer's crime writer, Bill James.
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