The curious thing about Jonathan De'Ath is that everyone who knows him - his old university lecturer father, his mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his so-called friends and his lovers - they all call him 'The Butcher', each in ignorance of the others. They don't know the only real secret he maintains: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, is his longtime lover. sakriti opis