When an expensive car is pulled from the sea, veteran Northern Ireland police detective Tom Brannick instantly sees the connection to an infamous cold case that holds enormous personal significance for him - a notorious and long-buried series of mysterious disappearances. Bloodlands follows Tom Brannick's obsessive campaign to identify and unmask the legendary assassin behind these events - a figure code-named Goliath. It's a case that comes from Tom's - and his country's - dark past.