" Even when this tale in the continuing adventures of Edinburgh's Inspector John Rebus gets bogged down in political exposition and paragraphs of political explanation, the tenacity and doggedness of the main character continues to make the story about victims and people. Straying from the by the numbers procedural seems to get Ian Rankin's prose into some convoluted narratives, but Rebus is such a great character, it makes it all worthwhile. "
— Beausephus, 2/12/2014