One of the most evocative thrillers I’ve ever read.… Haunting, cinematic, and utterly gripping.
Virginia Baily, author of Early One Morning In this poignant, intricately plotted novel, 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. Abir Mukherjee, author of Death in the East It is that most wonderful of creations-a novel that informs while keeping you on the edge of your seat. The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong-now Philip Gray has delivered it.Ītmospheric and meticulously researched, Two Storm Wood sheds light on the horrors and the trauma that continued even after the Armistice. splendidly realised historical thriller….its achievement lies in Gray’s finely worked portraits of the pity of war - those damaged by conflict and those who have to deal with its mind-altering consequences. A thought-provoking drama which routinely strikes a number of serious notes about man's inhumanity and the traumatic effects of conflict. Amy's sleuth work - tracking down survivors, sifting testimonies, venturing underground and re-evaluating the man she loves - makes for absorbing reading. horoughly researched and tightly plotted. Gray has crafted a historical thriller in which a gutsy heroine goes searching for answers on the empty battlefields of the Western Front…. As the 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.Įfreshingly different…. It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. Defying convention, hardship, and impossible odds, she heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.
Amy Vanneck’s fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many, but she cannot accept that his body may never be found. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint. He cannot return home until his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.Ĭaptain Mackenzie is a survivor of the war, but still its prisoner. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Three months after the end of the Great War, a young woman sets out across the wastelands of the Western Front to learn the fate of the man she loved.
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