A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019
"Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and
atmosphere."--The Wall Street Journal
When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious,
and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It
is 1809, and in England's wars against Napoleon, the Battle of Corruna
stands out as a humiliation: a once-proud army forced to retreat,
civilized men reduced to senseless acts of cruelty.
Slowly regaining his health, Lacroix journeys north to the misty isles
of Scotland with the intent of forgetting the horrors of the war.
Unbeknownst to him, however, something else has followed him back from
the war--something far more dangerous than a memory...