In the past: a man crawls desperately through a claustrophobic escape tunnel beneath a POW camp in the Cambridgeshire Fens. Above, a shadow passes across the moon, while ahead only death awaits him.
In the present: Philip Dryden is reporting on an archaeological dig at the old POW camp when a body is uncovered. But there is something odd: the man appears to have been shot in the head, and the position indicates that he was trying to get into the camp, not escape it.
It's a puzzle which excites Dryden far more than the archaeologists or the police.
That is, until a second, more recent, body is discovered ...
- ISBN10 0141018631
- ISBN13 9780141018638
- Publish Date 6 July 2006 (first published 30 June 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English