But the central character-a sheltered woman who witnesses and experiences numerous atrocities alone-strains the boundaries of believability, as does the unnecessary closing twist. Flashbacks to the war heighten the tension, and the mystery of Haslam's whereabouts remains tantalizingly unclear until the very end. Two Storm Wood: Uncover an unsettling mystery of World War One in the The Times Thriller of the Year, by Gray, Philip, ISBN 9781529113655, available at The. With British troops scouring the area attempting to identify the thousands of scattered corpses, Amy enters a virtual hell scape of death and destruction, where she discovers that her missing fiancé was somehow connected to the murders of 13 men, all Chinese laborers. Amy Vanneck, who made a promise to choirmaster turned reluctant soldier Edward Haslam that she would bring him (or his body) home, travels to the trenches where Haslam was last seen in search of her lover. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Amy Vanneck’s fianc is one soldier lost amongst thousands, but she is not ready to accept that his body may never be found. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for burial. Set largely in northern France a few months after the end of WWI, this uneven historical from British author Gray ( Zoia's Gold, writing as Philip Sington) follows an affluent English woman on a quest to find her fiancé, who went missing in action and is presumed dead. 'The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong - now Philip Gray has delivered it' David Young, author of Stasi Child 1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent.
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