Author: JARDINE, QUINTIN
Title: Fallen Gods
Description: London: Headline, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0747274487. Some edgewear, creasing top edge of DJ ; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.09 x 9.42 x 6.4 Inches; 320 pages; The heat is on for Bob Skinner, Scotland’s most revered and, in some circles, most feared cop. His career hangs by a thread, as a recent illness gives his enemies a weapon to use against him. A body found in the detritus of a flood is identified as the hated brother whose existence Skinner has kept hidden for years. On the crime front, an incendiary device destroys a valuable painting in Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy. As Skinner and his team tackle these crises, his wife Sarah—left in America, with their children, to recover from the tragic death of her parents—finds comfort with an old college lover. When fate leaves her staring at a seemingly inevitable murder conviction, Skinner will need all his fearsome resources to sort out the tangled mess of his life. But is he still up to the challenge? Lightning–paced and emotionally gripping, 'Fallen Gods' is Quintin Jardine’s breakthrough novel.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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