When Detective Inspector Michael Joyce is called out to a potential murder scene early one Sunday in Stevenage, it’s immediately clear to him that this is not the usual Saturday night stabbing; the victim is a middle aged man in a suit and tie. With no identification on him, it is only by meticulous detective work that the police establish his identity – a Military Policeman based in Germany.

Eager to find out what the man was doing in Stevenage, DI Joyce goes to his base in Paderborn to search his flat with the local Military Police. What they discover there takes the investigation in a whole new direction, as they realize that the murdered man was not on a case at all, but was engaged in serious criminal activity himself.

With his father dying in a hospice with terminal cancer, and a dead, rogue Military Policeman on his hands, will Joyce cope in his pursuit to find out who the murderer is, and how will he handle the revelation of a secret that his father’s been tormented by since the war?