In the third instalment of Irvine Welsh's CRIME series, now-former detective Ray Lennox makes a connection between an eminent local and a group of missing foster care boys as he embarks upon a new life in Brighton.

'The truth is what we say the truth is . . . '

Former detective Ray Lennox is determined to start a new life. He has left Edinburgh Police behind for a fresh career and a fresh relationship in Brighton.

Then he meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he is seemingly a pillar of the local community - yet he soon draws Lennox back to a past that he's desperate to forget.

As Lennox identifies the links between Cardingworth, a series of violent attacks and the disappearances of a group of foster care boys, he is forced to ask himself: what must he sacrifice to expose the truth?