At the very end of the book, on what was to be Robin’s last day working at the Agency, Strike finally attends an appointment with his specialist consultant at the Amputee Centre, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, southwest London.

There has been an amputee rehabilitation service at Queen Mary’s since the First World War, when the service was established to help those who had lost limbs as a result of the war.  In 2006, the Centre was renamed the Douglas Bader Rehabilitation Centre after the RAF pilot who lost both his legs in World War II.

You can watch a short video about the prosthetics team at Queen Mary’s, and the work they do, here:

Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton is located here: