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 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.

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