Skinner's Ordeal

'The Skinner series grows in authority and should be a natural for television.' - TIME OUT The fifth novel of a critically acclaimed series. After an explosion, a plane plunges from the Scottish skies, with the British and American Defence Secretaries among the victims. Edinburgh's Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner and his team, with military colleague Adam Arrow, have an embarrassment of suspects with both motive and opportunity. Then sudden random violence wrenches Skinner out of the picture. While his colleagues struggle with the baffling mass of clues, he lies on the verge of death, trapped in a nightmare from which there is seemingly no escape, as he confronts horrors from his own hidden past.