A.B.Stone lives in London. A lifelong career in medical research has taken him to many distant lands. His encounters with people of diverse cultures and beliefs, including a period living with missionaries among indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest, are vividly reflected in his writing.
Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, Klara Brandt discovers that the man responsible for the brutal massacre of her family when she was a child in Germany is still alive.
Her thirst for vengeance compels her to leave her comfortable new life in New York and risk everything to find him. But is the man she eventually encounters in the remote backwaters of Brazil really the sadistic killer she’d set out to find, or someone else?