Butterfly On The Storm. The Heartland Trilogy. Part 1

WALTER LUCIUS

Publication: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Translated from the Dutch by Lorraine T. Miller and Laura Vroomen. As new, unread copy in dust jacket. A young boy is found in the woods outside Amsterdam. Broken and bloody, he appears to be the victim of a brutal hit-and-run. When the police at the hospital ask what happened, the one word the boy repeats they don't understand, but journalist Farah Hafez does. She left Afghanistan as a child and she recognizes her native tongue. As the boy is taken into surgery she finds herself visiting the scene of the crime, seeking to discover how a little Afghan boy came to be so far from home. Instead, she comes across a burnt-out car with two bodies inside. It is just the start of a journey that will lead her from one twisted strand to another in an intricate web of crime and corruption that stretches across Europe and deep into a past that Farah had sought to escape.

Inventory Number: 42390