Fergus Smith

This book follows two newly commissioned lieutenants learning how to command in Northern Ireland during the run up to the 1997 General Election

The sequel to In the Shadow of the Mountain and Sunrise in the Valley. This novel brilliantly captures the moral and intellectual collapse of New Labour leaving power.

This novel is the second in a trilogy following two characters through the wars of the Blair/Brown period of government. It is 2001, and Major Paul Illingworth is sent to the troubled Balkan region of Kosovo as a media spokesman. Once there he must win the hearts and minds of the local population, but all factions are volatile, and veteran war reporters are deeply cynical of anything he says. Can he trust Roza, his young Albanian interpreter? And which version of the truth does he believe?