"Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police."
"Returning to Tehran, he runs a fake dental practice as cover for assisting in sowing chaos and mayhem in Iran. Things go awry when he enlists double agent Roya Shabani, widow of an Iranian scientist killed by the Israelis. The book takes the form of a series of confessions that Kam, now caught and imprisoned, is forced to write by his torturer, and these documents which may or may not reveal the whole truth are interspersed with flashbacks."
Rilke, a gay Glaswegian auctioneer, discovers Rodney Manderson stabbed through the eye with a Victorian hatpin and removes the pin before calling the police. Manderson's death implicates Rose Bowery and raises suspicions tied to a notorious reform school. Rilke's loyalty and cautious instincts complicate the investigation and reveal personal and institutional roots of violence. Kam Esfahani, a Jewish Iranian dentist living in Sweden, accepts a Mossad assignment and returns to Tehran, running a fake dental practice as cover to sow chaos. He enlists Roya Shabani, is captured, and is forced to produce confessions interspersed with flashbacks that expose cycles of violence and hypocrisy.
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