For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.



But there must always be an account to settle... and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.



Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire - a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields - Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism to answer one last, impossible question:



What makes a hero?