Publisher's Synopsis
October 1940. The London borough of West Ham is in the grip of a night of bombing, and undertaker Francis Hancock relives the trauma of the trenches he suffered in World War One. Then he sees a man, lurching through the rubble, screaming about being stabbed. Francis dismisses it as another man's ravings until the man's body turns up at his funeral parlour, two days later Suspecting foul play, Francis wants to discover what happened that night, but pitted against violent thugs and his own sanity, he realises that there are people who want the truth to stay dead and buried.
