Warning Bell

NB this book was previously published under the pen-name Tom Macaulay

'This is thriller writing of a rare order’ DAILY EXPRESS

'One of the most impressive novels in years' CRIME TIME

A son seeks to uncover the secrets of his father's wartime past, but the truth is more dangerous than he can imagine...

Iain Madoc should be a happy man. Having successfully sold his business, he can look forward to an exciting new chapter in his life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But his father shunned him as he was growing up, and the old man's coldness still causes deep pain.

His father spent the war ferrying SOE agents across the channel into occupied France, and Iain knows that his change in personality dated from a mission in 1944 that ended in disaster, with his father barely making it home. Now, on her death-bed, Iain's mother gives him a clue about what happened on that fateful night, and Iain sets off for the tiny Breton village of St Cyriac determined to discover the truth.

At first the villagers are welcoming, remembering his father as a hero, but as he nears the final, extraordinary revelation, Iain realizes that he has unleashed terrible forces that might destroy them all.

Tragically, Tim Griggs died very suddenly in October 2013. He was born in London and lived and worked on four continents. He held British and Australian nationality and worked variously as a truck driver, journalist, film extra, MD of a successful communications consultancy, and - for about seven sweaty hours - as a volunteer fire fighter. Despite that, much of the Australian bush survives. Tim wrote many short stories and three other novels, including the best-sellers Redemption Blues and The End of Winter, and the Victorian epic Distant Thunder.