Shuttlecock - Graham Swift

Prentis. senior clerk in the ‘dead crimes’ department of police archives, is becoming more and more contused.

Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital Prents feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss. Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him ~ and his father.

Gradually Prentis suspects that his father’s breakdown and Quinn’s menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father’s memoirs, Shuttlecock…