The prizewinning and bestselling author of THE OUTCAST returns with an emotionally powerful portrait of a marriage in extremis and a world-view in question. Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. When Hal is transferred to the Mediterranean, his wife Clara and their baby daughter join him. But Cyprus is no 'sunshine posting'. The atrocities Hal is drawn into take him further from Clara; a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come.