Despite Rob’s promise to Cassie that they won’t investigate Operation Vestal, they make a dark bargain to keep the secret and carry on working on the cases.
In the summer of 2006 detectives Rob Reilly and Cassie Maddox are sent to investigate a child’s murder. They find a community caught between the old Ireland and the new.
Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.
