In the '88 thriller Watchman, published here for the first time, British spy Miles Flint gets into trouble with the scoundrels detonating bombs around London and the even worse scoundrels he works with. Then there's his restless wife.
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Ian Rankin's writing is always terrific, but in the last two decades he's
learned valuable lessons about plotting. B
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