Off the beaten track. On the trail of a killer.

Paul Wood is trekking with another backpacker in the Annapurna Range of Himalaya when they find the still-warm body of a Canadian with his skull smashed in and a Swiss Army knife plunged into each eye. An extraordinarily brutal and unusual crime.

And, extraordinarily, Paul has seen such a death before. His girlfriend was murdered in Cameroon two years before, her eyes mutilated identically.

Another terrible similarity: the local authorities are not interested in investigating a murder of and by travelling foreigners. And if Paul has been a witness to two murders, how many more victims are lying in the developing world who have not been discovered?

Using every means he can, Paul tries to uncover the killer. But it may be someone he knows. And that means the killer could find him first . . .

'Trail Of The Dead' is a breakneck first novel.