Publisher's Synopsis
The abandoned Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude's Ferry, requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence in 1990, was used for military training. The ancient community had famously never recorded a single crime. But when reporter Philip Dryden joins the Territorial Army on exercise in the empty village, the shelling reveals a hidden cellar. Inside hangs a skeleton, a noose around its neck... Two days later, a man, pulled from the river near Ely, doesn't know who he is, but he knows the words 'Jude's Ferry' are important - and he's afraid... Dryden, convinced the key to the mystery rests in the last days of the village when prejudices and hatred came to a head, is led back to Jude's Ferry. But who is waiting for him there?
