An old man dies on a cold winter's night sheltering under a viaduct, but his troubled and tormented soul refuses to leave this world until a wicked conspiracy is exposed. A conspiracy detailed in the Journal of Harry Somerville. It is 1965 and Luke Collingbourne, a sixteen-year-old youth, is destitute and living on the streets. His future is as bleak as his traumatic past; until the day he inherits a little, leather case from an ailing vagrant, who dies next to him, in the night. The contents of the old man's case expose a twenty-year-old mystery that Luke is determined to solve. What gradually unfolds is a heart-wrenching story with its roots in the deserts of North Africa. Over the next six years, a determined and resolute Luke continues to unfold the incredible truth; revealing slander, cover-ups, hatred, murder, revenge, retribution and the remarkable reason why Harry Somerville died as a sad, old vagrant. The denouement brings their life-stories together, with breathtaking consequences!