When the heir to a billion-dollar business empire goes missing in the medieval city of Cambridge in England, it soon becomes clear to PI Evan Buckley that the secretive family who hired him to find Barrett Bradlee haven't told him the whole truth. Far from it. Worse, Barrett’s problems didn’t start until he asked the wrong people the wrong questions about his own family. As Evan tracks Barrett from the narrow cobbled streets of the city to the windswept watery expanses of the East Anglian fens, one question refuses to go unanswered - what lies behind Barrett's obsession with the US Air Force base at Lakenheath, the heart of the CIA's covert operations in England at the height of the Cold War? As the mystery unravels, Evan finds himself caught up in a violent showdown that's been brewing for sixty years, a bitter feud between Barrett's family and that of a ruthless politician at the core of the British establishment, a powerful and desperate man with everything to lose who'll stop at nothing to prevent the dark secrets of his own family's past from coming to light.