Luis and Sebastian were twins and their home was a flat-roofed white house outside the walls of a little mountain town. Their parents had died but had left them a small inheritance and the boys lived on in their old home.

Dean had had a very depressing day. He sat in the coffee shop with his head in his hands, wondering how things had turned out to be so bad. He had an hour to go before he was due to appear before the judge in Court Number Three in the Crown Court opposite.