Down and dirty among the spooks and spies of Scottish politicsCITY LIFEampnbspScotland 2009 Gordon Browns Labour Cabinet imploding an expenses scandal rocking Westminster a minority SNP government threatening the unionampnbspJournalist Willie Morton is accosted by a man claiming a crucial byelection in Glenforgan unexpectedly won by Labour was riggedampnbspHes sceptical until he learns the ballot papers have mysteriously been destroyed and cannot be checked Then the Deputy Returning Officer is found deadampnbspMortons investigations lead him into an underworld of fringe politics the sinister and elusive Raymond Mearns and a derelict cottage at East WemyssampnbspHe tracks Mearns into a coastal cave a hidden entrance to disused mine workings but knocked unconscious in the absolute darkness it looks like a dead endampnbspPacy political thrillers stalking the uneasy ambiguous terrain of the UKs constitutional crisisampnbspampnbspTHE NATIONAL
