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Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs., He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions., What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.

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"A work of formidable imaginative scope ... the writing is so good, the language so surprisingly subtle and the characters so beautifully delineated" (Daily Telegraph)

"Riveting action scenes bristle with a queasy energy ... unputdownable and disgustingly realistic" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Elton writes a good crime story with lots of twists and excitement" (Henry Sutton Daily Mirror)
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'A work of formidable imaginative scope ... the writing is so good, the language so surprisingly subtle and the characters so beautifully delineated'
Daily Telegraph

Douglas Kingsley is sent to Flanders in 1917 to investigate the murder of a British officer. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of the third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.

Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?

As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes ever more blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.

'Riveting action scenes bristle with a queasy energy ... unputdownable and disgustingly realistic'
Sunday Telegraph

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  • VerlagBlack Swan
  • Erscheinungsdatum2006
  • ISBN 10 0552771309
  • ISBN 13 9780552771306
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  • Anzahl der Seiten448
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