"Rebus turned to look at his passenger. The man"s name was Peter Meikle. He had served almost half his adult life in various Scottish and English prisons and had the pallor and bearing common to ex-cons. His face needed a shave and his sunken eyes were black, wary pinholes. Rebus had picked him up from outside a betting shop on Clerk Street. A few sets of lights and they were heading past the Commonwealth Pool and into Holyrood Park..." Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Saints of the Shadow Bible (Ian Rankin)