REBUS IS BACK. Twenty-five years since John Rebus appeared on the scene, he is as stubborn and anarchic as ever. Despite the politics between Rebus and Malcolm Fox, all Rebus wants to do is discover the truth about a series of disappearances stretching back to the millennium. The problem being, no one else wants to go there - and that includes Rebus's fellow officers. Not that any of that is going to stop Rebus.