for ned, 1978 seems a blissful year. handsome, popular, responsible, and a fine cricketer, life if progressing smoothly, if not effortlessly. when he meets partia fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. what if her left-wing parent despise his tory mp father? doesnt that just make them star-crossed lovers? and surely, in the end, wont the fendemans be won over by their happiness? but of course, one persons happiness is anothers jealous spite. and spite is about to change neds life forever. a promise made to a dying teacher and a vile trick played by fellow pupils rocket ned from cricket captain to solitary confinement, from head boy to political prisoner. more than twenty years later, ned returns to london, a very different man from the boy seized outside a knights bridge language college. a man implacably focused on revenge, revenge is a dish he plans to savour and serve to those who conspired against him, and those who forgot him.

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