Racing the Devil: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery

In late June, 1916, before the bloody Battle of the Somme, several English officers have a last drink before returning to the Front. They hardly know each other, but they have something else in common besides war: a passion for motorcars. Daring fate, they swear to meet in Paris a year after the war ends, to celebrate their survival by racing their own motorcars from Paris to Nice.

In November 1919, five remaining officers set out for Nice. But in the hills high above the coast, one vehicle is nearly run off the twisting, fog-shrouded road, while another is sent over. No one saw the driver of the rogue motorcar.

A year later, in England, a local vicar driving along the Sussex coastline in a blinding rainstorm loses control and is killed. Was it an accident Another set of tire tracks raises suspicions of something far darker, especially since he had borrowed the motorcar from a neighbor who had fought on the Somme.

Was this mistaken identity, in some way connected to the rogue driver in the mountains above Nice Or was the dead man actually the intended victim

Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge-a man who carries his own ghosts from the battlefields of France-discovers that there is an elusive killer here on the high chalk cliffs, one who shows no mercy, hunting his prey with a cunning learned in the trenches. When the next target is a child, Rutledge will stop at nothing to find this victim in time.