Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburghs most hardened criminals, its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreetsbut nothing could have prepared him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.
In the citys red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. Its a neighborhood of lost inhibitions, forgotten scruples, and hopeless dreams. In its seediest clubs, refugees seeking asylum are subjected to the whims of the most ruthless characters in the crime worldmen Rebus knows all too well.
