The Scotsman website carries a review today from that great man, Allan Massie. It will be in the print edition at the weekend. Some lovely words here but our favourite phrase?

‘A novel which you are likely to read with deepening pleasure’

and he really gets the action:

‘Eco-warriors planning an act of terrorism, their relationship with unreconstructed Provisional IRA men, kidnappings, mysterious comings-and-goings between Kintyre and County Antrim in Northern Ireland, astonishing escapes and dangerous journeys, shootings and fistfights. There is no shortage of action’

Finally,

‘He writes with brio and conviction’

Thank you Mr Massie.