Stirling has been home to some of Scotland's bloodiest history. Connor Fraser is about to add to it . . . A body is found in the grounds of Cowane's hospital, blood seeping into the grass. Nearby is the head - mounted on a spike with eyes wide open and a dead rat stuffed into the mouth. For Connor Fraser, it's little more than a grisly distraction from the tedium of his day job as a close protection consultant and something to talk about in the pub. But then a second body is found, bloodied and broken, in the shadow of the Wallace Monument - and this time it comes with a message: a message that Connor has received before, from his time many years ago as a police officer in Belfast. With growing fears the murders are connected to a surge in radical nationalism and mounting pressure for the police to make an arrest, Connor is drawn into a race against time to stop the killer. But to do so, he must confront his past and unravel a mystery that some would sacrifice anything - and anyone - to protect.From Dundee International Book Prize and Bloody Scotland book of the year nominee Neil Broadfoot comes No Man's Land, the first in the white-knuckle Connor Fraser series.