Another great story by Ian Rankin. Well worth the read.
Like John le Carre, Ian Rankin has a subtext of philosophical/social musing running through his books. It is there in many of them as "the little guy (Rebus) against the powers that be". This line of musings is getting deeper though - in this book it appears more as technocracy, bureaucracy and political correctness against the human (and the just) in all the rest of us. In the character of Siobhan's captain, he has created a marvellous caricature of the ladder climbing young bureaucrat snuffling after every butt licking opportunity and publicity moment - a type anyone in a corporate or large bureaucratic organization should be more than familiar with...
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