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He spent 6 months in Earlestoke prison for a crime he did commit; breaking the Official Secrets Act, by exposing a top-secret Home Office study. Aprice any investigative journalist worth his salt is prepared to pay. He retreats to Bradford onAvon, trying to rebuild both his working life and his marriage, but the past refuses to go away. People - ordinary people, with no voice, no protection, no money - still write to him with their pleas for help, One, written ina scratchy, spidery scrawl, brings Frank to an old peoples home, suspecting a simple crime, only to discover that something more serious has taken place; murder, but this is no ordinary killing - it reaches down the years.