The Papers of Tony Veitch: Laidlaw Trilogy, Book 2 (Unabridged‪)‬

Eck Adamson, an alcoholic vagrant, summons Jack Laidlaw to his deathbed. Probably the only policeman in Glasgow who would bother to respond, Laidlaw sees in Eck's cryptic last message a clue to the murder of a gangland thug and the disappearance of a student. 

With stubborn integrity, Laidlaw tracks a seam of corruption that runs from the top to the bottom of society.