Next of Kin

'... they were now moving down the slope towards his house. The soldier raised his rifle to look at Azal through the light intensifying sight, and for a fleeting moment his face was illuminated as a pale green mask, Alaz shivered with fear and ran as if his life depended on it. Because it did.'

Iraq 1991, a special forces mission to plant fake weapons of mass destruction goes spectacularly wrong.

Years later, a soldier's daughter, Rachel is looking forward to leaving Boston and travelling the world, that is until her mother's car leaves the road and plunges into the icy waters of the Charles River.

With her younger brother missing, swept away by the current, things take a turn for the worse when the hospital refuse to continue treating her mother.

As Rachel desperately searches for medical documents, she discovers a hidden box containing information about an attack on a remote Kurdish village. As she looks into the events of the attack, she is shocked to find that her father may have been there.

Rachel seeks to find out the truth about his involvement, but by the time she realises her mother's crash was not an accident, everyone she cares about is at risk.

And once she learns what really happened can she make the ultimate decision of who lives and dies?