When a violent Mediterranean storm tears apart the pool terrace of his Costa Blanca villa, retired British engineer David Darnell expects nothing more than a battle with his insurance company. What he uncovers in the rubble, buried deep beneath the foundations, stops him cold. The local police are quick to offer an explanation. So is the town. So is almost everyone David speaks to. The answers come a little too easily, and the people giving them are a little too keen for him to move on