TY - BOOK AU - Gray,Philip TI - Two Storm Wood SN - 9781787302617 U1 - 823/.92 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Harvill Secker, part of Penguin Random House KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Fiction KW - Somme, 2nd Battle of the, France, 1918 KW - Soldiers KW - Missing persons KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - War neuroses KW - Psychopaths KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - War fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - "1919. The guns are silent. The dead are not"-- On cover; Map on endpapers N2 - 1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial. Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many, but she cannot accept that his body may never be found. Defying convention, hardship and impossible odds, she heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved. Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yet bring himself to go home. First he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint. It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark 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 ER -