When Men in Police Uniforms Came to Execute Me on the Roadside, Beside Dark Fields, It Was a Definite Sign That My New Life Was Over.' a Regular at the Local Pub, a Mainstay of the Footy Team, Mac Faraday is a Man With a Past Living the Quiet Life of a Country Blacksmith. but When His Best Friend Ned Lowey is Found Hanged, Mac - Who Has Learned the Hard Way Never to Accept Things at Face Value - Isn't Convinced He Committed Suicide and Starts Asking Questions. Why Did Ned Keep Press Cuttings About the Skeleton of a Girl Found in an Old Mine Shaft? What Was He Doing at Kinross Hall, the Local Detention Centre for Juvenile Girls? Who Was the Beaten Girl Found Naked Beside a Lonely Road? As Mac's Search for Answers Pushes Deeper Into the Past, It Resurrects the Terrifying Spectre of What He Calls His 'Old Life', Forcing Him to Turn to Long-Discarded Skills Not Only to Discover Why His Best Friend Died, but Also to Save His Own Life.