Inspector John Rebus has confronted Edinburgh's most hardened criminals,
its bloodiest crime scenes, and its most dangerous backstreets--but
nothing could have prepared him for what he finds on Fleshmarket Alley.
In the city's red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies,
and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. It's 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 world--men Rebus
knows all too well.