Michael Finch, an army psychiatrist, must determine whether Alex, a Delta Force commando who went missing in the caves of Tora Bora, is telling the truth. Seventy-two hours after the mission’s start, Alex was found unconscious at a gravesite nearby, the rest of his team having vanished without a trace. As Michael delves deeper into his patient’s twisted psyche, he inches ever closer to discovering the shocking truth.
“‘Oh, and madam.’
‘Your Majesty?’
‘I almost forgot. I have something for you.'
‘What is it?’
‘Well, don’t just stand there like a stranded warship, come and get it. It is what you wanted, isn’t it?’ He waves a paper at me. '
With beating heart, I take it from him. It’s mine at last. The royal commission for Romeo and Juliette, an opera in English to be written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.”
A mystery spanning centuries. A doctor obsessed with a patient. A soldier on a deadly mission. Can the impossible come true?
A riveting alternate history thriller!