In the midst of the horror of the First World War, a stranger falls from nowhere into the mud and death of Flanders battlefield--bruised, babbling, and stark naked . . . with a remarkable story to tell. The Great Game--the timeless diversion of human gods, a ruthless contest of treachery, magic, bet
Present Tense
β Scribed by WHS McIntyre
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press Ltd
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1910985252
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β¦ Synopsis
Criminal lawyer Robbie Munro is back home, living with his widowed, ex-policeman dad and his new found daughter, Tina. Life at the practice isn't going well, neither is the love life he regularly confesses to his junior, Joanna. Then again, on the subject of Joanna, Robbie may be the last to know... When one of his more dubious clients leaves a mysterious box for him to look after, and a helicopter comes down with two fatalities, events take a much more sinister turn, and all of this is complicated by the rape case he has to defend.
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