Els morts d'abril

April 1974, Good Friday day. A homemade bomb explodes in a flat in Woodlans, a poor neighborhood in Glasgow. What is a bomb doing there? Is it the IRA? After all, and according to agent Harry McCoy, Glasgow is like Belfast but without the bombs. On the floor they find a corpse (or part of it, since the rest is scattered throughout the dining room). Someone was building a bomb and it exploded in his hands. In the middle of the investigation, a man approaches McCoy in a pub where they are celebrating with the family of his colleague Wattie, who has just become a father. This stranger, named Andrew Stewart, is a wealthy American whose son (Marine, twenty-two, six months on USS Canopus) has been missing for three days; he is desperate, and after resorting to all official means to no avail, he turns to McCoy for help. This is how the fast-paced fourth installment of the novels starring police officer Harry McCoy begins.