In the firmament of historical novelist.Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude.Readers have embraced her bestselling new series of World War I novels--which juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war.
By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's-land, Joseph finds the body of the controversial (and much despised) war correspondent Eldon Prentice...
By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England"s youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man"s-land, Joseph finds the body of the controversial (and much despised) war correspondent Eldon Prentice. It turns out that Prentice was killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of his compatriots.What Englishman hated Prentice enough to murder him?
Meanwhile, Joseph"s brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer in London, continues his search for the sinister figure called the Peacemaker, who is trying to undermine public support for the antiwar struggle, an agenda similar to Prentice"s own. An intimate of kings,the Peacemaker kills with impunity--and may just be at the heart of a fantastic plot to reshape the entire world.
