Its Summer in the Granite City but even the sunshine cant improve the mood at Grampian Police Headquarters. Aberdeens growing Polish community is under attack from a serial offender who leaves mutilated victims to be discovered on building sites eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. Detective Sergeant Logan McRae is assigned to the investigation codenamed Operation Oedipus but with the victims too scared to talk its going nowhere fast. When the next victim turns out to be not a newly arrived eastern european but Simon McLeod owner of the Turf n Track bookies Logan suddenly finds himself caught up in a world of drug wars prostitution rings and gunrunning courtesy of Aberdeens oldest and most vicious crime lord.
