The Man Without A Name

On a quiet beach in Adelaide, just before dawn, a dead man is discovered leaning against a seawall.

He carries no identification. The labels have been removed from his clothes. His fingerprints lead nowhere. No missing-person report seems to fit.

Then investigators find a hidden pocket containing two words from an ancient poem.

The discovery opens a trail of strange clues: a mysterious book, an unlisted telephone number, a woman who refuses to explain what she knows, a possible connection to espionage, and five lines of code that have never been conclusively deciphered.

For more than seventy years, the identity of the dead man remains one of Australia's greatest mysteries.

Was he a spy?

Was he murdered?

Did he take his own secret to the grave?

The Man Without a Name follows the evidence from the cold sands of Somerton Beach through decades of investigation, speculation, forgotten records and painstaking forensic research.

At last, the mystery of who he was can be answered.

But the truth may leave even more questions behind.