Nations go to war in a blare of trumpets and glory for high designs like
Defence of the smaller nation, Democracy and Justice. Behind this
rhetoric is the pain and anguish of slaughter, misery, starvation and
death so that rich men grow richer. Beyond Revanche exposes the
grotesque injustice of a world war within which small group of French
policemen in the Deuxieme Bureau have to come to terms with the reality
of destruction. Stretched to the limit they seek answers to the
conundrum of who is actually controlling the war in France and beyond.
The conspiracy they unearth threatens their very survival and that of
France itself. Politics and injustice, sacrifice and conspiracy,
violence and murder stalk the grand boulevards of Paris while the
apparent ravings of a madman sheds a completely different light on
events in the city and the politics of division. 13. This fast-paced
story will enthral both readers who have no knowledge of the exposure of
the French capital to capitulation in the first weeks of the war and
those who have some awareness of these shocking times. The sheer
complicity of rich and powerful men who willed the evil to their own
advantage beggars belief. The main thread of events are witnessed by a
young detective struggling to find acceptance and an assassin who is
groomed to commit the final 'necessary' crime before war was declared in
1914. The following four years become an eye-opener to a truth which has
been long buried.
