The Quiet Man

D.I. AItken (Book 4)

By: Adam Hannah

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A fishing trawler carrying twenty four doomed young Syrian people between Northern Ireland and the Ayrshire coast sinks during a violent storm and all on board are drowned. The authorities act swiftly and charge the Irish businessman they identify as being behind the people-smuggling enterprise with his crimes and he is duly sentenced. An unsavoury episode in Glasgow's criminal underworld is quickly ended with a mortal blow, before it has a chance to properly establish itself and the Police on both sides of the Irish Sea are content to pat themselves on the back, after a job well done. So why do the lead Detective and the Defence Lawyer acting on the case go missing immediately after the Trial reaches a conclusion? Detective Inspector Jim Aitken has his own troubles. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after his most recent case, he is now spending his time alternating between working historic cases and lecturing Trainee Detectives and has no desire to find himself back at the sharp-end of the job, if he can at all help it. There is just one problem - the missing Detective is his best friend and the Lawyer is an ex-girlfriend that he parted from, with several unresolved issues lingering between them. Can Aitken assist his colleagues in finding out what happened, in time to save two of the people that have mattered most to him?