The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian
Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the
spring of 1920, he's dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose
war work is so secret even Rutledge cannot know its true nature.
Meanwhile, miles away, an unidentified body has been discovered in the
ruins of a Yorkshire abbey, clothed in a monk's robe and wearing a gas
mask.
In the shadow of a great white horse cut into the chalk hillside--where
cottages once built to house the sick and untouchable now shelter
outcasts like himself--Rutledge must extract a terrible truth from those
who hide from the past. For death is never quite finished with anyone,
least of all the men who fought in the bloody trenches of France.