The story is set in Post WW2 Edinburgh. Craig Erskine, a 70-year-old Scottish-born Australian, has made the first return journey to his birthplace since leaving for Australia in 1958. It was while living at number 356 Easter Road Leith, that he experienced a close call with death and a family betrayal. An International Welfare Organisation that exists, in reality, today was then the target of a politically clandestine incident that became an instant Government Secret and was learned anecdotally by the author Alenti Pawloswski is a returned Polish soldier who fought with the British Army and contributed much to the allied victory but received little recompense or basic welfare or gratitude , once the conflict ended. In a creative use of historical fiction, the author brings Pawloswski and Erskine together in a terrifying incident outside number 356 Easter Road Leith. ( which also remains today) The allied victory lay uneasily upon Europe and the impositions laid on some countries by the victors, sowed the seeds of political unrest that are flourishing almost a century later. While he was residing at number 356, as a child, Craig befriended a former soldier in the Australian army, who also contributed to the allied cause in World War One. Old Mac was injured at Anzac Cove and it was through him that a young Craig learned about how the Army dealt with those whom they believed were traitors and deserters. This had an enormous impact on young Erskine and his e relationship with his father. At the book's end, Craig returns to Australia quite emotionally 'battle weary' as though he had experienced another major conflict.

Stanley McGill Thomson was born in Leith as the son of a Congregational Minister. His earliest memories of place was sitting on a windy hill in the Shetland Islands where he lived with his parents Bill and Janet and brother David. Then the family moved to Cumnock and Dunfermline and from there migrated to South Australia.Education was at Salisbury North and King's College in South Australia. Then at Wentworth Central School in NSW where he left to commence a career within the PMG ( now Australia Post).For several years he and his first wife Pamela ran the General Store in Hepburn Springs Victoria where they had moved from Melbourne with their sons Christopher and Paul. It was from there that he made his foray into Radio at stations such as 3CV, 5PI (Port Pirie) 5SE (Mt. Gambier) and then to a 30 year career with the ABC proudly based in the South East of South Australia but broadcasting regularly interstate and nationally. Carole came into his life in 1988 and theyshare 6 children,10 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. He is anardent supporter of the Arts and was a long serving Trustee of Country Arts SA and board member of Riddoch Art Gallery in Mt.Gambier.