The Tartan Conspiracy

Richard Grindal is able to evoke the rough and dangerous beauty of his native Scotland as few suspense writers can. In The Tartan Conspiracy Grindal has created a taut, realistic thriller, with the Scottish Highlands as the starting point for IRA-fueled international intrigue.
Ian Blackie's discovery of some documents and newspaper clippings in a trunk in his father's attic leads him to investigate further the death of his father's old school friend General Alexander Ballantine. Ian's tug on this loose thread of his father's life begins to unravel a complex series of IRA plots, culminating in a race-against-assassination finish reminiscent of Day of the Jackal.
After the intensely disquieting small-town mysteries of Over the Sea to Die, Grindal has returned with a broader novel of espionage, danger, and personal vengeance.