The Chameleon's Shadow

When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change. He may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or it may be as his psychiatrist suggests the prolonged destruction of a personality.Though previously well adjusted and known as an extrovert Acland now withdraws into himself. As he begins his recovery in a dismal provincial hospital crippled by migraines and suspicious of his doctors he grows uncharacteristically aggressive - particularly against women and most particularly against his ex-fiancee. Finally rejecting medical advice to undergo cosmetic surgery - opting instead to accept his disfigurement - and cutting all ties to his former life he moves to London. There alone and unmonitored he sinks into a quagmire of guilt and paranoia until an outburst of irrational vicious anger brings him to the attention of the local police: they are investigating three recent murders all of them apparently motivated by the kind of extreme rage that Acland has exhibited.Now under suspicion Acland is forced to confront the issues behind his desperate existence before it''s too late.