Once More Unto the Breach
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- 2,49 €
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- 2,49 €
Descripción editorial
For readers of The Nightingale and Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a gripping historical thriller set against a fully-realized WWII backdrop about the love a father has for his son and the lengths he is willing to go to find him, from a talented new voice in suspense.
Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across an unfamiliar, war-torn country, he struggles to come to terms with the incident that drove a wedge between the two of them.
Joined by Charlotte Dubois, an American ambulance driver with secrets of her own, Rhys discovers that even as liberation sweeps across France, the war is far from over. And his personal war has only begun as he is haunted by memories of previous battles and hampered at every turn by danger and betrayal. In a race against time and the war, Rhys follows his son's trail from Paris to the perilous streets of Vichy to the starving mobs in Lyon to the treacherous Alps. But Rhys is not the only one searching for his son. In a race of his own, a relentless enemy stalks him across the country and will stop at nothing to find the young man first.
The country is in tatters, no one is trustworthy, and Rhys must unravel the mystery of his son's wartime actions in the desperate hope of finding him before it's too late. Too late to mend the frayed bond between them. Too late to beg his forgiveness. Too late to bring him home alive.
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In August 1944, Welsh sheep farmer and WWI vet Rhys Gravenor, the narrator of this lackluster thriller from Holloway (A Thin Dark Line and one other romance suspense novel as Emma Elliot), arrives in Paris on the trail of his missing son, Owain. Owain left home in the early days of WWII after Rhys called him a coward for refusing to enlist in the military. In Paris, Rhys meets American Charlotte "Charlie" Dubois, who was studying at the Sorbonne when the war caught up with her and she volunteered for the Ambulance Field Service. Charlie joins Rhys on his travels across France and into the Alps. Despite Charlie's denials that she possesses some knowledge of Owain, which Rhys is sure she has, the two develop a bond. Eventually, Rhys discovers that Owain was a war hero and hopes to be reunited with him to express a father's pride. A little tension is introduced once it becomes clear that someone else is looking for Owain and is prepared to pry information from him by any means necessary. The ending is disappointing in its predictability. Fans of historical fiction with a light mystery element will best appreciate this effort.
