This novel is set in the 1970s when the covert war in Ireland was at its height. Intelligence and military agencies competed for assets along the Border, and their proxy assassins prowled the night. At the centre of events was the mythic figure of Captain Robert Nairac, the Special Forces operative who disappeared while on active service in 1977, never to be found. Twenty-five years on and Blair Agnew, ex-Sergeant with a damaged past, looks back and tries to separate fact from fiction in a bid to lay his own ghosts to rest. But it is his teenage daughter who fully comprehends the deadly allure of the hidden. This startling novel, based around the compelling figure of Robert Nairac, once again drives at the complex heart of post-war Ireland. A thrilling evocation of the world of men who find themselves operating in the dark and clandestine margins of society, an exploration of ideas of perception, corruption, and murder.