Publisher's Synopsis
Some secrets are best left buried... When investigative journalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension, open hostility and violence. The African newcomers seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery - an event followed by the disappearance of a number of corpses and a series of bizarre, ritualistic murders. Ancient religion and modern prejudice are about to collide, and when they do, there may be no survivors...at least not human ones.
