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Nov 1, 2004 · Rebus has to cope with a backdrop of gun running, jailbreaks, left- and right-wing extremists, nationalists and other splinter groups who are spouting racist philosophies, and imported white-power fanatics who are perpetrating hate crimes.
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- David Moore
- 2004-11-01
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Mortal Causes is the 6th book in the Rebus series. It tells of John Rebus investigating a shooting during the Edinburgh Festival with possible IRA connections, while also overseeing a new youth club that is attempting to unite protestants and catholics in a deprived estate.
It is August in Edinburgh and the Festival is in full swing. A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable. And when the victim t...
Mortal Causes is a 1994 detective novel by Ian Rankin featuring Inspector Rebus. It involves a possible terrorist plot by a Scottish nationalist group with links to Northern Ireland loyalists.
A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city's ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable.
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- Ian Rankin
Jan 1, 2001 · In mortal Causes, the tortured body of a young man is found hanging from a butcher's hook in one of these underground rooms. The tattoo on his wrist and a cryptic inscription scratched in the dirt suggest to Inspector John Rebus that this was an execution, but what man or men carried it out?
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Jun 25, 2009 · A brutally tortured body is discovered in one of the city’s ancient subterranean streets and marks on the corpse cause Rebus to suspect the involvement of sectarian activists. The prospect of a terrorist atrocity in a city heaving with tourists is almost unthinkable.
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