Description
"I have enjoyed hundreds of medical mysteries and numerous war thrillers - but never, until now, in the same book. Burrows writing is top-notch as always. He nails his characters and I was deeply invested in the outcomes for Adam and Lizzie. I sincerely hope to be reading more about them!" Kindle Customer "Exciting story in military setting, working successfully on multiple levels: medical; military action; whodunit; black comedy, even romance, but also anti-war. Heart in mouth page-turner takes no prisoners." UK Kindle Customer "The characters are superbly written and developed through the book, the descriptions of the locations, the operations they carried out and the conditions are all really convincing and evocative, making this a very involving book, genuinely difficult to put down." Godiva, Amazon Reviewer "I very much appreciated Mr. Burrows' accuracy, especially in terms of anatomy, pharmacophysiology, and medical procedures. Well done! That level of precision is rare." AMDaniele, Amazon Reviewer
Features & Highlights
- You don't have to be killed in action to be a casualty of war.
- Medics Paul Adams and Lizzie Jarman are one of the most welcome sights to injured soldiers in the war-torn poppy fields of Afghanistan. With red crosses on their arms and medical equipment strapped to their backs, they thunder into battle in a Chinook helicopter. Straight into areas everyone else is desperate to get away from.
- In the middle of the fiercest fighting British troops have seen since the Falklands War, the medics are the last defence from death on the ground. But in Afghanistan, where an enemy is only an enemy when they raise a gun, there's no such thing as a non-combatant.
- Despite the heroic efforts of the medics, someone in the hospital is determined to finish what the Taliban has started. Wounded soldiers – who should be living – are dying. The deadliest enemy is much closer to home than they realise.
- As the death toll and the temperature rise, can the medics finish their tour of duty, or will it finish them?
