When hack reporter Dexter Lomax investigates a series of mysterious craters forming across Northeast England, he fully expects to exploit a well-planned hoax to maximum effect. What he doesn't expect is for suicidal beggars to thrust weirdly compelling video tapes into his hands, to be targeted by two opposing groups with deadly agendas, or to be in the centre of a true life drama that starts with the discovery of dozens of skinned corpses on the Town Moor.Drawn on by his lethal curiosity, Dexter is forced to journey further than even he had imagined possible, in pursuit of a story he might never dare write...