Traitor to His Blood

Joseph Tremaine Ellington, a former enquiry agent, is drawn back into his old life when his fiance Ruth Castle dies. He is asked to help find a locally respected Baptist minister's wife who has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers. Ellington is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the Bristol night, but his obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 02 September 2021
Publisher: Black and White Publishing

St. Paul's, Bristol. 1980. Joseph Tremaine Ellington, now 57 years old, has long since abandoned his former career as an inquiry agent for the safety of teaching. However, his old life pulls him back. One of the very few lights from Ellington's dark and violent past has dimmed. His fiance Ruth Castle has passed away, leaving him once again heartbroken and alone to raise his 15-year-old niece, Chloe. Ellington's days are long and lonely, his nights plagued by old ghosts. When the wife of a locally respected Baptist minister vanishes into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind both her own family and a critically fragile premature infant daughter, Ellington is asked if he can help find the woman. Joseph is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the Bristol night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend, a man he deeply respects, keeps drawing him back like a moth to a flame.

St. Paul's, Bristol. 1980. Joseph Tremaine Ellington, now 57 years old, has long since abandoned his former career as an inquiry agent for the safety of teaching. However, his old life pulls him back. One of the very few lights from Ellington's dark and violent past has dimmed. His fiance Ruth Castle has passed away, leaving him once again heartbroken and alone to raise his 15-year-old niece, Chloe. Ellington's days are long and lonely, his nights plagued by old ghosts. When the wife of a locally respected Baptist minister vanishes into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind both her own family and a critically fragile premature infant daughter, Ellington is asked if he can help find the woman. Joseph is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the Bristol night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend, a man he deeply respects, keeps drawing him back like a moth to a flame.

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 128 x 198 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781785303395