Whitechapel 1888The anatomy of a bloody murderer...Thirteen year old Thomas Edilstein has ample grounds to seek revenge on any number of his former neighbours in the East End of London, holding them responsible for the deaths of his parents and the good people poised to adopt him but where will following his murderous instincts take him?
A tale of two livesOne life:Stoker James Jolly - left school hardly able to read and write. Self-educated and eventually enlisted in the Royal Navy. Destined to fight in the Battle of Jutland in 1916Another life:Olav Peterson - shipwrecked off the coast of Iceland. Destined to find love in a nation for whom his knowledge and talents are vital.
On the eve of the Royal Navy's Zeebrugge Raid of 23rd April 1918, Chief Inspector Knocker Harris is hunting a vicious murderer of young women. And where better for a murderer to hide than in plain sight where his peculiar talents would be readily concealed and most highly prized … in His Majesty's armed forces.
The Mute Swan - a giant star-ship setting off on a long, one-way voyage. On board a new, young, maintenance engineer, Pen Pleasant, about to find his contract for thirty hours of duty over a two year period superseded by events beyond his control turning a routine job into the adventure of a lifetime.
From enlistment in Lord Kitchener's army, through the great set-piece battles in Flanders, two northern lads struggle to survive through the long years of static warfare and the advent of the tank until the armistice of November 1918. Heroism and abject fear - the lives of the Tommies in the trenches of Flanders fighting the Hun brought graphically to life in the story of Matti and Enrico.
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