Publisher's Synopsis
"Chilling account of blighted lives, missed opportunities, guilt and grief" THE GUARDIAN Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy suburb of north London came to a shocking end on 14 September 1948, when his sister was brutally murdered in woodland near his house. A tramp was arrested for the crime, but for the young boy it was the beginning of a lifelong search to discover what had actually happened that late summer day. Marcus Warwick was Tom's neighbour and best friend, but suspicion clouded Tom's mind and they drifted apart. They were both sent to Korea two years later, Warwick as an officer, Sedley as a humble radio man, and when they met in the chaos of war they both had to acknowledge a gulf had opened between them. It soon became apparent that the one could barely trust the other with his life.
