"As the prisoner felt the hangman's fingers position the noose tightly beneath his left jaw he screamed to some obscure deity to save him before vomiting into the cloying white linen of the hood encasing his head. Men with cold hearts and dead eyes buried him in an unmarked grave inside the prison walls. Even his spirit in eternity was incarcerated unless the truth was ever allowed to set him free."
A gripping story of how the gallows took a man's life, decimated the life of the barrister who defended him and threatened the generation that followed. The steely determination of the barrister's beautiful daughter leads her from the comfort of rural Somerset to a volcanic island in the South Pacific where she meets the dark, brooding Australian whose history held a secret so dreadful that not even he knew what it was.
Together they take on the English Establishment and seek to expose truths that Judges and the Ruling Classes had kept buried for over a quarter of a century. This is the story of their battle, their romance and their realisation that history just might repeat itself, culminating in a brutal courtroom drama which will decide whether justice can ever be found at the end of a rope.
The fourth fast-moving, chilling and riveting legal thriller from the pen of criminal QC David Crigman who takes the reader into sinister corners where others choose not to tread.
