Suspect Loyalties

<p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Down and dirty among the spooks and spies of Scottish politics</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>CITY LIFE</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Scotland 2009 - Gordon Brown's Labour Cabinet imploding an expenses scandal rocking Westminster a minority SNP government threatening the union.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Journalist Willie Morton is accosted by a man claiming a crucial by-election in Glenforgan unexpectedly won by Labour was </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>rigged</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>He's sceptical - until he learns the ballot papers have mysteriously been destroyed and cannot be checked. Then the Deputy Returning Officer is found dead.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Morton's investigations lead him into an underworld of fringe politics the sinister and elusive Raymond Mearns and a derelict cottage at East Wemyss.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>He 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 end...</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Pacy political thrillers stalking the uneasy ambiguous </em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>terrain of the UK's constitutional crisis  </em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>THE NATIONAL</span></p><p><br></p>