FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husbands brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philips life crumble away when his fathers ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him. Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghosts relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?