It's New Year's Eve, 1919. Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge has accompanied his sister to the home of mutual friends for dinner but gets a call from the office and has to leave. On the steps outside, he sees a brass cartridge casing, like countless others he's seen during the war. But this one h
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- Book ID
- 108067218
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Series
- Ian Rutledge 1
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
The Great War has been wonbut victory has its price. The year is 1919, and Ian Rutledge has returned to London to resume his position as Scotland Yard inspector, bringing nightmares and ghosts home with him from the French battlefields. Tormented and suffering from shell shock, he is immediately plunged into the affair of a popular colonel believed murdered by a decorated war heroa case that is a personal and political minefield that could destroy Rutledge's career and what remains of his sanity.
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