Book description
1915: Ben Retallick is asked by a War Office friend to provide two
traction engines for a secret expedition attempting to take two
gunboats overland from Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika - more than 3,000
miles - to wrest control of the lake from the Germans. He sends
engines with young Ruddlemoor as the driver, who meets a Portuguese
East African nurse and takes her side against a group of white racist
south Africans.
Meanwhile Antonia St Anna is influential in having Ben released,
when he is arrested on circumstantial evidence provided by a business
rival and accused of being pro-German.
In Brothers in War, E. V. Thompson returns to his acclaimed
Retallick saga, immersing the family in the upheaval of the First
World War and, through them, creating a captivating tale of love and
war, loyalty and betrayal, loss and adventure that weaves its way from
Cornwall to the uncharted territory of the depths of Africa - and an
eventful conclusion in Cornwall once more.
E. V. Thompson was born in London and spent nine years in the Navy
before joining the Bristol police. He moved to Hong Kong, then Rhodesia
and had over 200 stories published before returning to England to become
a full-time award-winning writer.
