Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
January 2012
On Sale: January 10, 2012
384 pages ISBN: 0547506147 EAN: 9780547506142 Kindle: B005LVR6EG Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Just back from maternity leave, forensic archeologist Ruth
is finding it hard to juggle motherhood and work when she is
called in to investigate human bones that have surfaced on a
remote Norfolk beach. The presence of DCI Harry Nelson, the
married father of her daughter, does not help. The bones,
six men with their arms bound, turn out date back to World
War II, a desperate time on this stretch of coastland.
Home Guard veteran Archie Whitcliffe reveals the existence
of a secret the old soldiers have vowed to protect with
their lives. But then Archie is killed and a German
journalist arrives, asking questions about Operation
Lucifer, a plan to stop a German invasion, and a possible
British war crime. What was Operation Lucifer? And who is
prepared to kill to keep its secret?