# The Impossible Dead

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- Book: [The Impossible Dead](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-rankin/the-impossible-dead) ([The Impossible Dead.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-rankin/the-impossible-dead.md))
- Authors: [Ian Rankin](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-rankin), [Peter Forbes](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-forbes)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0910-156-7
- Published: 2011-10-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

Malcolm Fox and his team are back, investigating whether fellow cops covered up for Detective Paul Carter. Carter has been found guilty of misconduct, but what should be a simple job is soon complicated by a brutal murder and a weapon that should not even exist. A trail of revelations leads Fox back to 1985, a year of desperate unrest when letter-bombs and poisonous spores were sent to government offices, and kidnappings and murders were plotted. But while the body count rises the clock starts ticking, and a dramatic turn of events sees Fox in mortal danger. Read by Peter Forbes (p) 2011 Orion Publishing Group