Killing Ground Allen Lane The first book of a

The first book of a trilogy

the Bastille

strong enough to leave its imprint like a wax cylinder recording

Pentecost leads his tribe of harvest mice from their polluted home to a new place of safety in the hills

prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing

Killing Ground Allen Lane The first book of aThe Western Ocean 1942. From the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchat Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was a full scale war. A relentless, savage war against an ever present enemy and a violent sea in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS