Desmond Bagley · 1967 · thriller

Desmond Bagley's 1967 thriller. A geologist with no memory of his life before a car crash takes a survey job in the British Columbia timber country, and sees a name on a town square that opens a door in his head. The family that owned the town has been erased from its own records, and the men who did the erasing have not finished.

1. 1
   Vancouver

   Bob Boyd, a geologist rebuilt by surgeons after a crash that killed everyone else in the car, takes a survey contract in the north - work for a man who has spent ten years not asking who he used to be.

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   Fort Farrell

   In the timber town of Fort Farrell he reads the name Trinavant on a public square, and something moves - and finds the family who built the place scrubbed from the newspapers, the records and everyone's conversation.

3. 3
   The Kinoxi valley

   Up in the valley the Mattersons mean to flood, Boyd's survey finds unstable ground above the dam that nobody wants reported - and the manhunt that follows is run by men who would rather he drowned with the evidence.