Synopsis

The Scottish kings’ defiant motto – *Nemo mi impune lacessit*—a warning not to provoke—underscores the atmosphere of this narrative. It is a reckoning for DI John Rebus, bound by an uneasy agreement with crime boss Morris Gerald Cafferty to locate the individual responsible for his daughter's life-threatening coma, the consequence of a hit-and-run. Now, with Cafferty’s illegitimate son brutally murdered—a phrase the underworld uses to denote a killing—the debt is due from Rebus. He navigates