![]() ![]() Captain Tollman, physically imposing and seething with bloodlust, is the battalion’s curse and a forager of secrets both Anson’s undercover work and David’s furtive desires are on Tollman’s radar, as well as Anson’s obsession with Beatrice Tempest, David’s fiancée. Anson becomes friends with David Alexander, “a fascinating mix of professional assassin and gentleman of leisure,” and a man with a secret. ![]() His assignment is to surreptitiously cover the apolitical human-interest side of the war between allied British and French forces and the German army, who meet up during skirmishes and at the bloody Battle of the Somme at the novel’s end. Lea’s narrator, Anson Scott, is an American newspaper reporter embedded with the Royal Pennines in 1916. ![]() Against a backdrop of trench warfare’s carnage, Lea brings to life a brave but factional British battalion of soldiers in this finely scripted World War I novel, both suspenseful and revelatory. ![]()
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