In his 60s, Jim Mackie was once a lawyer working for the Scottish Independence movement and is a former friend and mentor of Robert Wallace. His life was devastated 16 years ago by the sudden disappearance of his daughter, Julie. He is convinced that she was murdered and it was covered up by the police to protect the Security Services working to destabilise the independence movement. A good man wracked by grief, he is doggedly obsessed with what has happened to his daughter, and, after receiving proof, determined to get justice.
