Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people; now he's dead and it was no accident. So, who dealt the fatal blow? Glasgow DC Jack Laidlaw has a sixth sense for what's happening on the streets, and as two gangs go to war, he needs to find out who got Carter before the whole city explodes. When William McIlvanney died in 2015, he left behind half a handwritten manuscript of this, Laidlaw's first case, and here Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin steps in to complete it.