Joshua Winter arrives back in England from Canada to search for his father -- or his father's killer.

His father vanished unexpectedly 12 years previously, when Joshua was a child, and he has never got over his father's disappearance. As he battles his way naively through London's underworld to solve the mystery, he discovers more than he really wants to know. Cowley has constructed a gripping literary thriller that deals head-on with the pain of emotional loss, and how searching for solutions to unanswerable questions can take over your life.