博客來Book Two of Anne Perry's New York Times bestselling World War One series. . .
This installment, set in 1915 and with action alternating between the trenches and the home front in England, is both an espionage thriller and front-lines adventure.
Joseph Reavley's regiment is located in the Ypres salient, where a war correspondent named Eldon Prentice arrives and proves himself to be an arrogant troublemaker. Prentice wants to file a muckraking report on soldiers' self-inflicted wounds; in so doing, he earns the wrath of the entire regiment, including Joseph.
Before long, the journalist is murdered - drowned, with his head forcibly held down in the filthy water of the trenches. And soon a connection of conspiracy is made between his death and the murder in London of a highly regarded British general. Joseph Reavley and his brother Matthew, an Intelligence operative, collaborate to unmask a deadly killer - a man who, furthermore, is implicated in the murder of Joseph and Matthew's parents.
