2026. Independent Edinburgh—a tourist’s paradise, a citizen’s paradox. The birth rate is down in the Council’s “perfect city,” and gangs of disaffected kids roam the streets. A break–in at the archive of the former Scottish Parliament is rapidly followed by two gruesome murders, the victims mutilated and covered with blood–drenched branches. Under the watchful eyes of the Council, renegade investigator Quint Dalrymple is called in to establish a pattern and to stop the roots of violence from spreading. But Quint’s investigation is driven in a different direction when Edinburgh’s brightest teenagers are abducted to the much–feared democratic city–state of Glasgow. What Quint finds there will change his life forever.
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