Book description
Tom Sedley's idyllic summer vacation in a leafy post war suburb of
north London came to an abrupt and shocking end on the 14th 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
end of childhood and 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 the murder
changed their relationship forever: suspicion clouded Tom's mind and
they drifted apart. Unknown to each other they were both sent to Korea
two years later, Warwick an officer, Sedley as a humble radio man: and
when they met in the chaos of war they both had to acknowledge a gulf
of distrust and class had opened between the two.
Their new relationship was tested in the savagery of the combat that
swept up and down the peninsula that first winter. When Tom and Marcus
met again it was in combat and it soon became apparent that the one
could barely trust the other with his life. The bitterness of what
they experienced scarred them for the rest of their lives.
Only years later when Tom stumbles across his sister's secret diary
do the events of 1948 once more leap into sharp focus and allow him to
seek final justice for her murder.
Geoffrey Archer's gripping thrillers are inspired by a deep knowledge
of international intrigue gathered during more than 25 years of
reporting for ITV's News at Ten.
