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The First Casualty

De : Ben Elton
Lu par : Jack Davenport
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Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder.

Douglas Kingsley is a conscientious objector, previously a detective with the London police, now imprisoned for his beliefs. He is released and sent to France in order to secure a conviction. Forced to conduct his investigations amidst the hell of The Third Battle of Ypres, Kingsley soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him.

Ben Elton's tenth novel is a gut-wrenching historical drama which explores some fundamental questions. What is murder? What is justice in the face of unimaginable daily slaughter? And where is the honour in saving a man from the gallows if he is only to be returned to die in a suicidal battle?

As the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes evermore blurred, Kingsley quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth.

©2005 Ben Elton (P)2009 Random House Audio

©2005 Ben Elton; (P)2005 Random House Audiobooks 20e siècle Action et aventure Fiction Fiction historique Guerre et armée Guerre et militaires Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense Thrillers et romans à suspense
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    Riveting action scenes bristle with a queasy energy, the nightmare of the third battle of Ypres coming horribly alive as we follow Kingsley over the parapet ... unputdownable and disgustingly realistic ... But this unlikely novel is a reminder that Elton is a tireless thinker as well as a pundit, and as he grapples with the moral vacuum at the heart of the war to end all wars, he boldly goes exactly where he always does - to the heart of the matter. And he gives us a good many laughs along the way. (Melissa Katsoulis)
    A work of formidable imaginative scope ... Elton has created an extraordinary moral atmosphere, eschewing the cliches and usual derivations from writers such as Sassoon, Graves or Manning ... the writing is so good, the language so surprisingly subtle and the characters so beautifully delineated (Toby Clements)
    Elton writes a good crime story with lots of twists and excitement. (Henry Sutton)
    ...extremely good and compelling as Elton's graphic descriptions of the skinny strip of land that formed The Front truly bring alive the horror of that war and the unstoppable flow of young lives being snuffed out by the enemy's bayonet. (Lucy Clark)
    An impressive novel
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