‘As he looked to speak to the coachman, those eyes alighted on Sawson and remained locked upon him whilst his mouth curled in a sinister smile. Sawson... caught the man's look. He stood as if transfixed and shivered... and then the coach was gone and so was Sawson's peace.'
Edward Sawson had arrived in a small village in the Downs some twenty-five years earlier with nothing but the clothes in which he stood. A mysterious and reclusive figure, Sawson was always on the lookout but he nevertheless had made a happy and peaceful family life for himself.
Until a chance encounter destroys it all and makes him confess the remarkable and shocking events of his life that have put them all into the grave danger they now find themselves in...