When the decaying body of a murdered woman is discovered in a suburban house, DI Wesley Peterson has problems establishing her identity. But as he digs deeper, he has another more disturbing case to investigate - the naked bodies of two teenagers have been found with shotgun wounds at foot of a cliff. As Wesley searches for answers, he realises both cases are linked to a sinister manhunt mirroring events from the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Why did the teenage victims take part in an online game, which they were eventually persuaded to play for real? Then a skeleton is found near the place where the teenagers were last seen alive and Wesley finallybhas to face a terrible truth ... and a hunt to the death.
