Kosovo. 2004. When five years of fragile peace collapses, a Royal Military Police investigator is sent to explore the unrest. The fact-finding mission should be straightforward, but Corporal ‘Jonboy’ Davies soon senses something else going on beneath the surface. Something that has got one of his UN overseers very twitchy about what he might find.

Assisted by interpreter Anna and a team of Gurkhas, the Redcap must decide how much he is willing to risk. For the truth will be lurking in the darkest of places – both of a war-torn land and the human psyche.

And its repercussions will stretch all the way to the present…