Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure Leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace he is reduced to caretaking a friend's villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak Under suspicion of her murder Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken in the weeks before her disappearance Obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life & determined to clear his name he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue The trail leads him back to England to a world he thought he had left for ever
- & a past he has tried desperately to forget