From beneath a wartime POW camp near Ely, deep in the Cambridgeshire
Fens, a man crawls through an escape tunnel. But he won't emerge until
fifty years of peace have passed.
When he does, unearthed by archaeologists seeking a Saxon burial tomb,
local journalist Philip Dryden knows he has a mystery to solve. First
the man appears to have been shot in the head - and second, he was
breaking into the camp not out.
The police treat the body as an historical curiosity, but Dryden digs
deeper - and soon unearths a corpse of much more recent origin...