Set in the Essex backwaters this is an intriguing mystery with echoes of the Second World War and South America, keeping the reader guessing right to the end. A chance encounter between childhood acquaintances and a little dog leads first to love and then a mystery surrounding a presumed "accidental" death. A series of unexpected events and circumstances place the two lovers in turn and then together in desperate danger. following a dramatic climax the truth is revealed, which stretches back many years over many continents.