Publisher's Synopsis
In an attempt to avoid confronting the problems in his own life, Owen Monroe is writing the story of his father. Ross Monroe - boxer, Catholic and Anglo-Indian - was part of the race that ran the administrative side of the Raj. Through brutal boarding school, time with the Indian Air Force and working the railways, he was driven by a single dream: Olympic victory - until a devastating betrayal sent him into exile, with an obsession that changed his life forever. When Owen's chance discovery in a second-hand bookshop provides a clue to the whereabouts of his father's long-lost enemy, the quest that follows takes Owen through the secrets of the Monroe past and into an unexpected love affair...
