From a Dark Horizon (A Gregor Reinhardt Novel)
In the final months of World War I, a grisly crime at a secluded farmhouse sends young German officer Lt. Gregor Reinhardt to investigate and clear the name of an innocent man in this explosive entry in the popular Gregor Reinhardt series.
In 1918, the Kaiser’s forces are battered and numbed by the never-ending slaughter of the trenches. At an isolated farmhouse, a mysterious meeting of Germany’s top brass ends in death and destruction when a bomb goes off in the room. All the evidence points to one of Lt. Reinhardt’s men as the culprit, who committed suicide shortly after the explosion. Called in to confirm his guilt, Reinhardt’s seemingly open-and-shut case turns into a Pandora’s box of horrors as the clues increasingly lead him down a dangerous trail of conspiracy as twisted as the trench tunnels around them. With every new path of inquiry and person of interest, the body count rises around Reinhardt, casting suspicion upon himself as a possible co-conspirator. As German forces gear up for a final push to win the war, Reinhardt races against the clock to answer the many mysteries he’s uncovered, no matter the consequences. Fans of the series will love the earlier portrait of a risky Reinhardt, brash and impulsive in his search for truth through trenches, towns, trains, and terrifying battle. McCallin’s novel is richly textured and evokes the grim realities of trench warfare and the psychological and physical traumas unique to WWI soldiers.
Populated with a fascinating cast of characters, From a Dark Horizon masterfully captures the zeitgeist of the time: mutinous soldiers, Bolshevik cabals, dastardly medical treatments, and a generation of young men whose minds were sometimes more shattered than their bodies. This one is not to be missed.
