Prentis, senior clerk in the "dead crimes" department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused....
Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation. Towards him-and his father.
Gradually Prentis suspects his father's breakdown and Quinn's menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father's memoirs, Shuttlecock....
