An absorbing novel with some provocative commentary on America's war on terror.

A superb spy thriller worthy of sharing shelf-space with the novels of le Carre and Ken Collett.

FBI interrogator Revere Falk believes it is better to treat a suspect decently than to use more 'robust' methods.

Still, when a soldier is found dead under mysterious ciroumstances, and a high-ranking team is flown in to investigate, Falk should be above suspicion.

He may have thought it was successfully buried, but it is reaching out from his past, to the sodium-lit cell blocks and stifling humidity of this claustrophobic, rumour-ridden community, and its implications are greater than he could ever have imagined.