Investigator Neil turns his attention to a possible sighting of Lucan in Australia. He creates a false identity and goes undercover in order to try to track down his man.
Is a mystery that has bewildered police and investigators for fifty years about to be solved?
On a 2012 research trip to Africa, Neil鈥檚 colleague Glen finds a Lucan. Not the missing Lord, but his younger brother Hugh. After giving a rare interview, Hugh concedes that the missing aristocrat did escape England and create a new life for himself. He says that Lucan headed East to a spiritual life on a remote retreat.
Some time after, a letter lands on Neil鈥檚 doormat reporting the sighting of the fugitive as a Buddhist monk in Perth in Western Australia. The focus of the investigation now switches continent. Neil and Glen go down under and immerse themselves in a network of Buddhist devotees. 鈥淭o catch a criminal you have to act like a criminal鈥� Neil tells himself, and he creates the false identity of an ageing hippy called Bezza Dugal in order to go undercover and get closer to the man they think might be Lucan.
Bezza鈥檚 research takes the two men to the eastern coastal city of Brisbane and what they discover fuels Neil鈥檚 increasing conviction that they have found their man, and Glen鈥檚 natural journalistic scepticism begins to crumble. 鈥淣o one goes wandering into an old man鈥檚 home in Brisbane and finds the man hunted by so many people for so many years. It can鈥檛 be him鈥� says Glenn 鈥淸Or] can it?鈥�
Neil and Glen revisit the key moments and emotions that have shaped their journey.
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