Book excerpt: Spring 1950. Sergeant Major Ed Grover’s liaison job in Bristol is intended to create new friends and make new connections. But the death of missing GI Bradley Parsons throws everything out of joint. The city Constabulary wants to investigate the business. The US army wants the body back. Grover re-connects with KC Zoe Easton and her legal firm, but slides into conflict with the police Serious Crimes Team. And in the process, comes up against second string gangster Rodney Pride, and Maltese club owner Daniel Zampa – the city’s crime supremo. Events spiral out of control. The new Special Relationship comes under fire. And Grover finds himself caught in the ‘no man’s land’ between friends and foes.