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 semi mythical figure behind these events a figure code named goliath, after the giant shipyard cranes, samson and goliath that dominate the belfast skyline. It's a case that comes from tom's and his country's dark past.