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The naming of the dead : an Inspector Rebus novel / Ian Rankin.

ISBN: 0316057576
ISBN: 9780316057578
Physical Description: 452 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Copyright: &copy;2006

Rankin, Ian. (Author).

Summary:

The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush and Putin, which explains why he's manning an abandoned police station when a call comes in. During a preconference dinner at Edinburgh;Castle, a delegate has fallen to his death. Accident, suicide or something altogether more sinister? And is it linked to a grisly find close to the site of the gathering? Are the world's most powerful men at risk from a killer? While the government and secret services attempt to hush the whole thing up, Rebus knows he has only seventy-two hours to find the answers.