The First Casualty By Ben Elton. 9780552773362

Name: The First Casualty By Ben Elton. 9780552773362
Brand: Ben Elton

Ben Elton

Title:. The First Casualty Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback Overview:. Flanders, June 1917. The Front is a landscape of mud, shelling, and whispered reckonings, where truth is harder to locate than a foothold in the trenches. The death of a British officer—who is also a celebrated poet—stuns civilians at home and politicians at the front, and his murder is not inflicted by German fire but occurred while he was recovering from shell shock behind the lines. An English soldier, protesting his innocence, is arrested and pressed toward a conviction, an outcome that would quell the growing demand for justice. Into this charged atmosphere steps Douglas Kingsley, a conscientious objector who once served as a detective in London. Released from punishment and sent to France to secure the verdict the authorities crave, Kingsley faces a battlefield where evidence is elusive and witnesses vanish into the mud. As the Third Battle of Ypres roars, his investigation becomes a moral labyrinth: ev...