Rebus: The Lost Years
Ian Rankin

London: Orion, 2003 Hardback First Edition.

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket As New. 1st edition, 1st printing of this omnibus edition in fine condition with no inscriptions, in a near fine dustwrapper which is not price clipped.

Omnibus Edition Contains - Let It Bleed, Black & Blue and The Hanging Garden.

ISBN:0752856731

LET IT BLEED Struggling through another bleak Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. Was the Lord Provost's daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councilor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago? And why on earth is Rebus invited to a clay pigeon shoot at the home of the Scottish Office's Permanent Secretary? Sucked into the machine that is modern Scotland, Rebus confronts the fact that some of his en emies may be beyond justice.

BLACK & BLUE Rebus is juggling four cases trying to nail one killer - who might just lead back to the infamous Bible John. And he's doing it under the scrutiny of an internal inquiry led by a man he has just accused of taking backhanders from Glasgow's Mr Big. Added to that there are TV cameras on his back investigating a miscarriage of justice, making Rebus a criminal in the eyes of a million or more viewers. Just one mistake is likely to mean an unpleasant and not particularly speedy death or, worse still, losing his job.

THE HANGING GARDEN Rebus is on the paper trail of a WWII war criminal.. Until the running battle between two rival gangs on the city streets arrives at his door. A Chechen gangster running prostitutes out of Bosnia starts muscling in on Edinburgh territory. When his own daughter is the victim of a hit and run Rebus is forced to acknowledge that there is nothing he wouldn't do to bring down the prime suspect - even if it means cutting a deal with the devil.

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