385pp, 520g. No creases, stamps, marks or writing. Lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq with serious head injuries. Though previously well adjusted and known as an extrovert, Acland now withdraws into himself. As he begins his recovery crippled by migraines and suspicious of his doctors, he grows uncharacteristically aggressive, particularly against women, and most particularly against his ex-fiancée. Finally, rejecting medical advice to undergo cosmetic surgery and cutting all ties to his former life, he moves to London. There, alone and unmonitored, he sinks into a quagmire of guilt and paranoia, until an outburst of irrational, vicious anger brings him to the attention of the local police: they are investigating three recent murders, all of them apparently motivated by the kind of extreme rage that Acland has exhibited.