The Great War (as it was then called) continues to take the lives of umpteen thousands of young men on the battlefields. On the home front a German spy ring has infiltrated the Welsh dockyards and any further loss of men and supplies must be stopped.
This is a long, ingenious thriller, written with real brilliance. There's an evocative sense of time and place, and characters glowing with honour, courage and fortitude, up against some devilishly evil villains seeking death and destruction.
Wesley Morgan walks tall through the darkness and violence with all the attributes of a hero, but there's also love, eroticism and grief, in this magnificent novel.

I loved the use of World War 1 in this, it had everything that I was looking for in this type of book. The characters were what I was expecting and I enjoyed the suspenseful feel that this book had. I enjoyed the way David Meaton wrote this and it left me wanting to read more from him.

I ended up DNFing this book. The description sounded so good, but I just could not get into the story. The writing was very dry and overly wordy for my taste.

Repetitive, inaccurate and a bit boring I'm afraid.
However, my thanks to NetGalley and The Book Guild for this ARC in exchange for an unbiased and honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this book ahead of time in exchange for a review. It didn't disappoint! Must read!!

I was draw to this book by the setting of time, plot, and location. The writer is telling a story.....unfortunately it is being thoroughly done without much chacter developement or offering insight into an interesting location among potentially interesting people. To me, the result is a somewhat plodding police procedural (though the bad guys are more spies and traitors than conventional criminals). I have no quibble with the unfolding story. The problem is that I just didn't much care.

Great historical read to see the transition from a boy from South Wales to the war and the rise in ranks.