Book description
Bierce was a happily married cop with a bright future. Then on one
sunny day in July his wife and their young son were savagely beaten to
death. Bierce was convicted of their murders. Languishing on Death Row
twenty-three years later, he still has no memory of the incident.
Unexpectedly, inexplicably released just seconds before his execution,
he teams up with the beautiful, feisty, half-Chinese Alice Loong, who
guides him through the confusing new world of the twenty-first century.
But it soon becomes clear that Alice is hiding dark secrets of her own.
Pursued by mysterious enemies who are convinced that Bierce knows more
thatn he is telling about his wife's death, the pair are forced into a
dangerous race against time to uncover the truth about the events of
that fateful day.
David Hewson was born in Yorkshire in 1953. He was a journalist from
the age of seventeen, working most recently for the Sunday Times. He
has also written several novels, as well as a number of travel books.
Following his acclaimed Italian crime series, The Promised Land is a
stand-alone novel. The author lives in Kent.
