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Violence
Some
A disappearance, a murder, and intelligence service connections; some thriller-style violence
Language
Some
Some strong language
Sexual Content
Some
Adult content in Roy's private life
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific discomfort of discovering who your brother actually is; the limits of family knowledge
What this book is about
Banks's brother Roy calls out of the blue — frightened, urgent — and before Banks can reach him, Roy has vanished. A woman connected to Roy is found murdered in London. Banks investigates his brother's life and finds it full of secrets, including connections to the intelligence community that make the investigation politically sensitive. Peter Robinson's fifteenth Banks novel is the most personal in the series — the investigation of a brother's life — and one of the most thriller-adjacent, the intelligence service plot giving it a different texture.
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fifteenth of the Banks series
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