Dl John Rebus is on the paper trail of a WWll war criminal…until the running battle between two rival gangs on the city streets arrives at his door .A Chechen gangster is running prostitutes out of Bosnia via Tommy Teffoird a Glaswegian upstart muscling in on Edinburgh territory When his own daughter is the victim of a hit and run Rebus is forced to acknowledge that therse is nothing he wouldnt do to bring down prime suspect Tommy Telford-even if it means cutting.