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- Title: Murders in a Time of War
- Author : Jeffrey Sheppard
- Release Date : January 27, 2020
- Genre: Historical,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 433 KB
Description
AN UNCOMPROMISING NOVEL ABOUT WAR, VIOLENCE, LUST AND MURDER
With the British Expeditionary Force in full retreat on the fertile fields of Northern France in May 1940 Corporal Alfred Spooner seized on the opportunities this chaos caused. Over the course of a few weeks he brutally murdered a number of young French women as he too retreated back to Dunkirk.
The BEF was desperate to buy time to evacuate the beaches. Spooner along with a number of his comrades were ordered behind enemy lines to gather information about the Wehrmacht. When they were attacked, in a cowardly act he fled and left his mates behind to fend for themselves.
With his self preservation paramount he was evacuated safely back to England, deserted and continued on his murderous ways in and around London. One of his old army mates, Bluey McConnell, suspected Spooner was a serial killer. Outraged, he became obsessed in finding Spooner and made it his mission to hunt him down. Yet with war raging in Europe discovering this killer was like finding a needle in a haystack.
From England the trail leads to the D-Day landing beaches, Caen, Brussels and eventually Berlin. Which in 1946 was in virtual ruins, compounded by the four governing allied forces, France, USA, Britain and the USSR who were at each other’s throats. Chaos reigned supreme, so once again Spooner found the perfect killing ground in this post war anarchy.