Tom Quinn's exciting new war novel is written in his characteristic "rampant storytelling" style. It begins with the encounter of three young soldiers, one German, one French, one British, in the trenches of World War One and follows them into the darkness of the interwar period. Each page is full of incident and characters and stories abound as we follow these three men after the war to London, Paris, and Berlin, with detours to, among other places, Hollywood, Mallorca, and even a walk on the pilgrim path to Santiago de Compostella. At every step love and war intertwine until we reach an extraordinary and sensational finale.
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