A quarter of a million pounds worth of Derby-winning stallion has vanished in Kentucky, and a young man and a girl spend a dangerous afternoon in a punt on the Thames. From these distant but related beginnings, investigator Gene Hawkins must make sense of the events.
Mitch is a 25-year-old with commitment issues. Leonard is a five-year-old kid with asthma and vision problems, who captivates everyone he meets. Pearl is Leonard's teenage mother, who's trying to hide a violent secret from her past. Life has given Pearl every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force...