Absolution1984: It looked like a simple job. That was why they gave it to him. Guarding a woman nameless and almost faceless after a savage acid attack at a Glasgow hospital, PC Alan McAlpine has no idea that this simple job will haunt his career and change his life forever. 2006: Two decades later, Alan steps into Partickhill police station and back in time. Now a celebrated Detective Chief Inspector, McAlpine has been drafted in to lead the hunt for a man the

Whether taken as a social satire

the consuls son discovered buried in the units basement

a former Buffalo Soldier

Miraculously balances humor

When another murder is committed

Sweeping in scope

he really shouldnt be surprised

Alkibiades flees persecution in his native city to join the Spartan cause

They desire each other

When you see the overwhelming truth when you are seventeen

In the end

'Returns to the high standards of The Grapes of Wrath and to the social themes that made his early work