The brutal murder of Sarah Ford and the disappearance of her six-year-old daughter, Alice, shattered the rural serenity of Julia Havilland’s childhood. But these are not the only scars that have resolutely refused to heal. Shortly afterwards, Colonel Mitchell Havilland sacrificed himself on a Falklands hillside in an “A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama.” — Irish Independent The brilliant new thriller from the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer . The brutal murder of Sarah Ford and the disappearance of her six year old daughter, Alice, shattered the rural serenity of Julia Havilland's childhood. Shortly afterward, Colonel Mitchell Havilland sacrificed himself on a Falklands hillside in an act of characteristic - but baffling - heroism. When Julia comes home from China fifteen years later, it is to a place of ghosts. While she awaits the outcome of the enquiry that seems destined to end her short but spectacular career in military intelligence, Julia finds that it is not just the tortured image of her much-loved father that haunts her. Everything she has ever believed in has suddenly been called into question, and unless she confronts her demons she will not survive. For there have been other deaths, and the dead will not sleep . . . The Sleep of the Dead is a stunning thriller, and more than confirms Tom Bradby as one of this country's foremost thriller writers. “A race-against-the-clock thriller and a complex psychological drama.” — Irish Independent Tom Bradby was sent to Belfast by ITN as their Northern Ireland correspondent in 1991. He remained there for four years before becoming their Political Correspondent. He is now Asia correspondent for ITN based in Hong Kong. He is the acclaimed author of Shadow Dancer .