The Mission

This Volume, "The Mission", follows directly on from Vol,1. "Reflections on a Tragedy".

What lay behind the conspiracy of silence that sought to destroy Bill Jackson? Who and why? Was Bill's strange illness even due to paranoia at all? Or was it linked to matters far more sinister?

Adam, after a lonely year in Canada, goes in search of answers, but, like his literary counterpart, "Hamlet", he hesitates, unsure where and how to begin. He has only his vivid nightly visions and that final desperate letter of Bill's to go on. He can't even be sure there was foul play. He lingers on in Canada until he receives an unexpected letter from former student, Mack Hebler...

This book. the second part of the 'Hamlet Trilogy', describes Adam Riley's desperate quest to avenge his friend and colleague, but, as he enlists the help of some of his former students from the class of '65, a dangerous nostalgia and a sense of inevitability seems to hang over them all like a menacing cloud. Can they ever rid themselves of the Hillcrest inheritance and move on?