When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head injuries he faces not only permanent disfigurement but also an apparent change to his previously outgoing personality. Crippled by migraines & suspicious of his psychiatrist he begins to display sporadic bouts of aggression particularly against women especially his ex-fiancee who seems unable to accept that the relationship is over. After his injuries prevent his return to the army he cuts all ties with his former life & moves to London. Alone & unmonitored he sinks into a private world of guilt & paranoid distrust.. .until a customer annoys him in a Bermondsey pub & he attracts the attention of local police investigating three murders which appear to have been motivated by extreme rage.. . Under suspicion Acland is forced to confront the real issues behind his isolation. How much control does he have over the dark side of his personality? Do his migraines contribute to his rages? Has he always been the duplicitous chameleon that his ex-fiancee claims? & why -- if he hates women -- does he look to a woman for help?