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  • Published: 30 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241957998
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
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The Professor of Truth





The acclaimed new novel from one of Scotland's - and Europe's - most essential writers

Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a university lecturer, still doubts the official version of events surrounding that terrible night. Obsessed by the details of what he has come to call The Case, he is sure that the man convicted of the atrocity was not responsible, and that he himself has thus been deprived not only of justice but also of any chance of escape from his enduring grief.

When a terminally ill American intelligence officer arrives on his doorstep with information about a key witness in the trial, Alan decides to act. Will this lead to the truth for which he has waited so long?

  • Published: 30 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241957998
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 272
Categories:

About the author

James Robertson

James Robertson is the author of four previous novels, The Fanatic, Joseph Knight, The Testament of Gideon Mack and And the Land Lay Still. The Testament of Gideon Mack was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, picked by Richard and Judy's Book Club, and shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award. And the Land Lay Still was the winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2010.

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