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TWO STORM WOOD - PHILIP GRAY KARTONIERT (TB)

'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 THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE
NOT. 1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France  the guns of the Great War are
silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass
burial. Captain Mackenzie  a survivor of the war  cannot yet bring himself to go home. First he
must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. His task is upended when a
gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint. Amy Vanneck's fiancé is
one soldier lost amongst many  but she cannot accept that his body may never be found. She
heads to France  determined to discover what became of the man she loved. It soon becomes clear
that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches
out  both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath  one for whom the atrocity at Two
Storm Wood is not an end  but a beginning. ___________________ Praise for Two Storm Wood:
'Atmospheric and meticulously researched  Two Storm Wood sheds light on the horrors and the
trauma that continued even after the Armistice...a novel that informs while keeping you on the
edge of your seat' Abir Mukherjee  author of The Shadows of Men 'Gray succeeds in entwining two
powerful tales - a love story and a hate story - in a way that  right from the shocking start 
is both convincing and enthralling' Virginia Baily  author of Sunday Times bestseller Early One
Morning 'One of the most evocative thrillers I've ever read...Haunting  cinematic  and utterly
gripping' D.B. John  author of Star of the North

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