The book of evidence Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence not of his innocence but of his life of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus Montgomery is a chillingly articulate self aware and amoral being whose humanity is painfully on display.