The Fourth Crow Author:Dan Smith, D. W. Smith Detective Chief Inspector Harry Fathers -- the smart, tenacious, sometimes prickly cop who runs Scotland Yard's Serious Crimes squad -- returns in this engaging mystery that goes behind the scenes of MI5 and the British Secret Service. — When a special operation surrounding a suspected KGB spy suddenly fails, the government finds a security l... more »eak so serious that they cannot trust anyone in the intelligence service to investigate it. Fathers is assigned to the case, and accepts it with reluctance -- he already has his hands full with a brutal gang war that has half of London in turmoil, and long hours on the job are straining his marriage. To add to his problems, his new boss does not share Fathers' aversion to bureaucracy and petty displays of power.
But as Fathers begins the investigation, he becomes obsessed with a world of suspicion and deceit, where the only certainty is that no one can be trusted. With relentless persistence and typically unorthodox thinking, Fathers gradually discovers the truth -- a solution that will startle even the most devious reader.« less
ISBN-13: 9780312050917 ISBN-10: 0312050917 Publication Date: 1989 Pages:288 Edition:First edition. Us ed Rating: