James has a scar in the back of his head. It's where he was wounded in
the Battle of Suvla Bay in August 1915. Or is the scar the mark of his
implant that allows the Process to fill his mind with its own reality?
In IF, the people of a small English town cling on after an economic
collapse under the protection of the Process. But sometimes people must
be evicted from the town. That's the job of James, the bailiff. While on
patrol, James discovers the replica of a soldier from the First World
War wandering the South Downs. This strange meeting begins a new cycle
of evictions in the town, while out on the rolling downland, the Process
is methodically growing the soldiers and building the weapons required
to relive a long lost battle.
In THEN, it is August 1915, at the Battle of Suvla Bay in the
Dardanelles campaign. Compared to the thousands of allied soldiers
landing on this foreign beach, the men of the 32nd Field Ambulance are
misfits and cranks of every stripe: a Quaker pacifist, a freethinking
padre, a meteorologist, and the private (once a bailiff) known simply as
James. Exposed to constant shellfire and haunted by ghostly snipers, the
stretcher-bearers work day and night on the long carry of wounded men.
One night they stumble across an ancient necropolis, disturbed by an
exploding shell. What they discover within this ancient site will make
them question the reality of the war and shake their understanding of
what it means to be human...
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