Author Gordon Ferris had me right from the get go with this murder mystery.
Post-war
Glasgow, and journalist Douglas Brodie has returned to help a friend in
need. His friend, one he had presumed dead, was badly burned inside a
bomber that had been shot down. Now he sits in prison, found guilty of
killing a young boy.
When Brodie meets Hugh Donovan's advocate,
Sam Campbell, he discovers that the evidence points to the guilt of
Donovan. However, Brodie was a police officer before the war and he
finds that the evidence doesn't fully ring true.
And thus begins
Brodie's search for the truth. He will encounter cops whose brutal
methods obtain confessions from innocent people and people who don't
want to be involved. Things turn into a holy mess when two thugs he had
had an earlier encounter with toss him off a ferry. Connecting the
dots, the finger is pointed at a priest who knew he would be on that
ferry. Is that priest in cahoots with the local drug baron?
What
Brodie turns up for answers surprises him and Sam. In order to get
more he has to enter the drug baron's lair. But what he finds isn't
sufficient.
About two-thirds of the way through the story, author
Ferris gives the reader a sudden twist, taking the reader in a totally
new direction. Like the reader, Brodie and Campbell can't resist. Things take a turn
for the worse when Sam goes missing. The author builds the
suspense to a point where it is almost too much to take in!
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