Shoulder the Sky

Publisher Marketing: By April 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England s youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man s-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn public opinion against the war. Most troublesome to Joseph, Prentice has been killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of his own compatriots. What Englishman hated Prentice enough to kill him? Joseph is afraid he may know, and his sister, Judith, who is General Cullingford s driver and translator, harbors her own fearful suspicions. Meanwhile, Joseph and Judith s brother, Matthew, an intelligence officer in London, continues his quiet search for the sinister figure they call the Peacemaker, who, like Eldon Prentice, is trying to undermine the public support for the struggle and, as the Reavley family has good reason to believe, is in fact at the heart of a fantastic plot to reshape the entire world. An intimate of kings, the Peacemaker kills with impunity, and his dark shadow stretches from the peaceful country lanes of Cambridgeshire to the twin hells of Ypres and Gallipoli." Review Citations: Ingram Advance 08/01/2005 pg. 47 (EAN 9780345456557, Paperback) Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2004 pg. 102 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2004 pg. 654 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 07/26/2004 pg. 41 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Booklist 07/01/2004 pg. 1800 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Library Journal 09/01/2004 pg. 126 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Romantic Times 10/01/2004 pg. 82 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/15/2005 pg. 157 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2004 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) School Library Journal 02/01/2005 pg. 157 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 743 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 712 (EAN 9780345456540, Hardcover) Kliatt 01/01/2005 pg. 50 (EAN 9781593550523, Analog Audio Cassette) Contributor Bio:  Perry, Anne Anne Perry (b. 1938) is a bestselling author of historical detective fiction, most notably the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series and the William Monk series, both set in Victorian England. Her first book, "The Cater Street Hangman" (1979), launched both the Pitt series and her career as a premier writer of Victorian mysteries. Other novels in the series include "Resurrection Row", "Death in the Devil's Acre", and "Silence in Hanover Close", as well as more than twenty others. The William Monk series of novels, featuring a Victorian police officer turned private investigator, includes "Funeral in Blue", "The Twisted Root", and "The Silent Cry". In addition to these series, Perry is also author of the World War I novels "No Graves as Yet", "Shoulder the Sky", "Angels in the Gloom", and others, as well as several collections of short stories. Perry's novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world and she has over twenty-five million books in print worldwide. She lives in Scotland. Contributor Bio:  Page, Michael Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984 and has over two hundred titles to his credit. He has won several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards, including for "The War That Killed Achilles" by Caroline Alexander and "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch.