Book description
Veronica Gaisford. Most men desired her, many loved her, some
mistrusted her, but none was indifferent. Amid the violence and
bitterness of the First World War and the years that followed, she bound
together the lives of three very different men. She was exceptional -
beautiful, passionate, and passionately loyal to her native Ireland. She
could have been a traitor or a saint. Francis Carr, a Foreign Office
civil servant, met Veronica newly-widowed in Berlin and half fell in
love with her, doubting her apparent innocence. His cousin John Marvell
loved her boundlessly, blindly, won her and lost her, and was prepared
to perjure himself for her safety. Her relationship with Gerhardt
Brendthase, a young German officer with the Imperial General Staff in
Berlin, was more ambiguous - was it an emotional or a professional
attachment?Against a brilliantly graphic background of war and its
aftermath, David Fraser unfolds the private lives of his characters to
form a many-sided drama. It was a turbulent and bloody age, when lives
were lost and futures shattered. An age where both heroism and treachery
could flourish... Veronica Gaisford. Most men desired her, many loved
her, some mistrusted her, but none was indifferent. Amid the violence
and bitterness of the First World War and the years that followed, she
bound together the lives of three very different men. She was
exceptional - beautiful, passionate, and passionately loyal to her
native Ireland. She could have been a traitor or a saint. Francis Carr,
a Foreign Office civil servant, met Veronica newly-widowed in Berlin and
half fell in love with her, doubting her apparent innocence. His cousin
John Marvell loved her boundlessly, blindly, won her and lost her, and
was prepared to perjure himself for her safety. Her relationship with
Gerhardt Brendthase, a young German officer with the Imperial General
Staff in Berlin, was more ambiguous - was it an emotional or a
professional attachment?Against a brilliantly graphic background of war
and its aftermath, David Fraser unfolds the private lives of his
characters to form a many-sided drama. It was a turbulent and bloody
age, when lives were lost and futures shattered. An age where both
heroism and treachery could flourish...
