Testimony

'Four hundred. All murdered.' 'At once?' 'So they say.' 'By?' Roger drew back. 'Well, that's where things get opaque.'

With his marriage and career over, Bill ten Boom was looking forward to finally taking some time off. But when asked to become a prosecutor at The Hague's International Criminal Court, a mystifying case proves too much to resist . . .

Ten years ago, in the chaos following the Bosnian war, a Roma refugee camp vanished overnight. Now a witness has finally stepped forward: Ferko Rincic claims that armed men marched the four hundred refugees to a cave and set off an explosion, burying them alive. Only Ferko survived.

But who these armed men were, nobody can say. And to get to the truth, Boom must question the integrity of every person linked to the case, as it soon becomes apparent that every party has a vested interest and no qualms in steering the investigation their way . . .