Death Comes for the Fat Man

From bestselling and award-winning crime writer Reginald Hill, a "chilling, frightening, page-turning tale" featuring Yorkshire coppers Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, "that won't let you go, even when you finally put it down." (Providence Journal). Caught in the blast of a hugeexplosion, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel lies on a hospital bed, withonly a life support system and his indomitable will between him and the GreatBeyond. Meanwhile, his colleague, Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe, is determinedto find those responsible.Ignoring his own injuries, theadvice of his friends, and the pleas of his wife, Pascoe follows a windingtrail to the Templars, a mysterious group that believes the only way to fightterrorism is through terror. Where the arm of the law cannot reach, their workbegins. Soon Pascoe comes to suspect that they may have support and sympathy inhigh places, from men ready to accept the death of a policeman or of any otherinnocent bystander as regrettable but unavoidable collateral damage.From the streets of Manchester tothe Yorkshire countryside, Pascoe searches for the truth. And above it all,like a huge zeppelin threatening to break from its moorings, hovers thedisembodied spirit of Andy Dalziel.