A retired Special Branch Detective succumbing to dementia disappears from his remote home in rural Northern Ireland, An ex-intelligence officer is tortured to death. But why was his obituary printed in the local paper before his death? A son seeks his father's long-lost body and vengence against those who murdered him. A stone-cold killer stalks the outskirts of Belfast. But at whose behest is he hunting his targets? and why?
All are connected by a single strand spun out of the past, but as Inspector Celcius Daly knows, the past is never dead... it's not even past.
