Book by Quintin Jardine
The Loner is a 2011 crime/thriller novel by Scottish writer Quintin Jardine. Written as an autobiography, it is an account of the life of its principal character, Xavier 'Xavi' Aislado, a journalist with the fictional Edinburgh-based broadsheet, The Saltire. The book is a standalone novel, but features an appearance by Jardine's Edinburgh police detective, Bob Skinner. The Loner received generally... Wikipedia