Investigating a severed hand found on the third green of Cockermouth golfcourse was not how Detective Inspector Avison Fluke had planned to spendhis Saturday. So when a secretive unit from London swoop in quoting nationalsecurity, he's secretly pleased. But trouble is never far away. A young womanarrives at his lakeside cabin with a cryptic message: a code known to only ahandful of people and it forces Fluke back into the investigation he's just beenbarred from. In a case that will change his life forever, Fluke immerses himselfin a world of new age travellers, corrupt cops and domestic extremists. Beforelong he's alienated his entire team, made a pact with the devil and been arrestedunder the terrorism act.But Fluke is only getting started. A voice has called out to him frombeyond the grave and he has no intention of ignoring it.