'The man reached into his jacket and put a photograph on the table. Simone's own face smiled up at her. But she was wearing a dress she had never owned, sitting on the steps of a house she had never seen.'
Buenos Aires, 1976. On a night that will haunt him for the rest of his life, Reuben Altman's wife and baby daughters are "disappeared" by the death squads. Twenty years on, Reuben is still racked with guilt, still refusing to believe they are dead, still trying to find them.
His lonely search leads him to Mexico City, to London, and finally to Rome, where he finds his answers amidst a deadly web of love, betrayal, corruption and intrigue.
