- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review (3 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755302923
- ISBN-13: 978-0755302925
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 602,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The war is coming to a close, with huge advances by the Allies. Joseph Reavley regiment has suffered huge losses but all are living in hope that peace will soon be upon them, when a further, brutal tragedy strikes the front. Sarah Price, a young nurse, is savagely raped and murdered and Joseph, sickened by the crime, vows to find the person responsible.
Matthew, Joseph's brother, is already at the front to meet a prisoner who claims to be able to identify the shadowy Peacemaker, when he becomes implicated in the nurse's death. If Matthew is to bring the prisoner to the office of the Prime Minister, he must work with Joseph to ensure that Sarah Price's killer is found, and soon. If Matthew is able to put a stop to the Peacemaker's schemes, there will be a chance for lasting peace; if he fails, then freedom and liberty could be all but a distant memory for future generations...
Matthew, Joseph's brother, is already at the front to meet a prisoner who claims to be able to identify the shadowy Peacemaker, when he becomes implicated in the nurse's death. If Matthew is to bring the prisoner to the office of the Prime Minister, he must work with Joseph to ensure that Sarah Price's killer is found, and soon. If Matthew is able to put a stop to the Peacemaker's schemes, there will be a chance for lasting peace; if he fails, then freedom and liberty could be all but a distant memory for future generations...
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New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry lives in Portmahomack, Scotland, and her well-loved series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt has recently been adapted for television. THE CATER STREET HANGMAN was watched by millions of viewers when it was broadcast by ITV.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
i think this whole series is absolutely wonderful and has made me feel as though I was actually there. I can't get that period of history out of my mind. How could all those wonderful men die and to what avail. It breaks my heart to think of what that generation could have given us.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very readable,and excellent descriptions of trench warfare,explaining clearly what it was really like.I had to read the final instalment to find out who the "peacemaker" was. I liked all the characters. They were all so different. I have spent the summer reading all five books.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Finally Perry's WW1 quintet of novels is brought to its emotional ending, but though I think these are hugely under-rated books, I was slightly disappointed with this book.
It's October 1918 on the Western Front and though the war is finally drawing towards an inevitable armistice, the violence and despair continues. In the midst of the carnage of Ypres a nurse is raped with a bayonet and horrifically mutilated before being left to die, and Joseph Reavley has to find her killer. Ideally it would be one of the surrendered German prisoners but he fears that the war has left its moral mark on the psyches of the men who have been taught and encouraged to kill, and he can't escape the idea that the rapist/murderer might be a man with whom he has shared the incomparable intimacy of the trenches for four long years.
At the same time Joseph's brother Matthew, an Intelligence officer, is finally drawing close to the man they have dubbed the Peacemaker, the man whose manipulations to prevent/stop the war have tipped him over into a monomania which has led him to murder and to become a traitor to his own country. Matthew himself is sent, for the first time, to the trenches of France and he too is drawn into the hunt for the rapist.
Perry does a fine job of making the rape a central part of the message of her book, making it a part of her statement and exploration of war, rather than an incident which happens against a simple backdrop of war. But though her evocations of the front line are superb, this is an oddly uneven book I felt, that stops and stalls rather than flowing from beginning to end.
The whole rape story is rather coyly handled, and the motivation left rather oblique (it was also fairly easy to guess the outcome quite a long way before Joseph). The uncovering of the Peacemaker too which has haunted the last four books before this felt like an anticlimax, and the ends were all tied up a little too neatly at the end.
Having said that, I think this is an emotional addition to WW1 fiction - perhaps a little too weighted by hindsight and a little too much sentimentality over the `lower classes', but still well worth reading. The heart is there but the execution falters slightly in comparison with the last novel, but that's still a small fault overall. Recommended.
It's October 1918 on the Western Front and though the war is finally drawing towards an inevitable armistice, the violence and despair continues. In the midst of the carnage of Ypres a nurse is raped with a bayonet and horrifically mutilated before being left to die, and Joseph Reavley has to find her killer. Ideally it would be one of the surrendered German prisoners but he fears that the war has left its moral mark on the psyches of the men who have been taught and encouraged to kill, and he can't escape the idea that the rapist/murderer might be a man with whom he has shared the incomparable intimacy of the trenches for four long years.
At the same time Joseph's brother Matthew, an Intelligence officer, is finally drawing close to the man they have dubbed the Peacemaker, the man whose manipulations to prevent/stop the war have tipped him over into a monomania which has led him to murder and to become a traitor to his own country. Matthew himself is sent, for the first time, to the trenches of France and he too is drawn into the hunt for the rapist.
Perry does a fine job of making the rape a central part of the message of her book, making it a part of her statement and exploration of war, rather than an incident which happens against a simple backdrop of war. But though her evocations of the front line are superb, this is an oddly uneven book I felt, that stops and stalls rather than flowing from beginning to end.
The whole rape story is rather coyly handled, and the motivation left rather oblique (it was also fairly easy to guess the outcome quite a long way before Joseph). The uncovering of the Peacemaker too which has haunted the last four books before this felt like an anticlimax, and the ends were all tied up a little too neatly at the end.
Having said that, I think this is an emotional addition to WW1 fiction - perhaps a little too weighted by hindsight and a little too much sentimentality over the `lower classes', but still well worth reading. The heart is there but the execution falters slightly in comparison with the last novel, but that's still a small fault overall. Recommended.
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Thought Provoking
Anne Perry takes you right into the time and place. You are there, not just reading about it.A truly emotional experience - but you must read all of her first world war novels to... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Stromaman
Loved this and the rest of the series.
This is as good as the rest of the books in this five part series. Her writing can be very poetic and more than once I have been emotional when reading her lines! Read more
Published on 27 May 2010 by Ms. M. G. Knight
Slightly disappointing
It was good to complete this series based around WW1 but, at times, I found the story repetitive and, unfortunately, not as enjoyable as the other books in the series. Read more
Published on 8 Mar 2010 by Julie E. Woods
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