1942. Hull East Yorkshire - It is the most heavily-bombed city outside of London - but for the
sake of national morale the Hull Blitz is kept top secret. Only the politicians in Whitehall
and Hull's citizens themselves know of the true chaos. Newly-posted Inspector Ambrose Swift
cannot believe the devastation he finds. But for Swift and his two deputies - part-time
bare-knuckle boxer Jim 'Little' Weighton and Dales farmer's daughter Kathleen Carver - it's
murder not the war that's at the forefront of their minds. When a series of sadistic killings
is wrongly blamed on locally-stationed black American GIs Swift a one-armed former WW1
cavalryman who tours the rubble-strewn city on a white horse soon discovers these are no
ordinary murders. The fetid stench of racism corruption and perversion go to the very top. And
for Swift Weighton and Carver finding the real killers means putting their own lives at risk
- because powerful forces in the US and Britain cannot let the war effort be undermined. Not
even by the truth.
