"Had God in mind: I smite you with an infirmity that makes you an outsider, and then I watch idly as people play tricks on you to see how firm your faith is? Were they all who escaped from the island Job's brothers?" He doesn't know who he is, so they call him Losian. With a handful of other boys and men, he lives locked up in a ruined island fortress off the Yorkshire coast. When a freak of nature opens the way to freedom, they dare to escape back to the mainland. An adventure begins and a quest - and Losian must fear that he is to blame for the horrific war that is afflicting all of England
