Angels in the Gloom (World War One Series)

A climactic U-boat hunt and naval battle conclude this stirring work. Joseph's brother, Matthew, an intelligence expert, must work with seductive Irish double agent Detta Hannassey to determine the extent of Germany's knowledge of Britain's war strategies, despite his revulsion for her duplicity. Giles for rehabilitation, but finds the village consumed by issues raised by the war. All rights reserved. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This powerful and intense third novel in Perry's WWI series (after 2004's Shoulder the Sky) continues the Reavley family's anguished search for the "Peacemaker," a shadowy figure responsible for their parents' murders two years earlier, and now intent on Anglo-German world domination as a means toward world peace. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. After Chaplain Joseph Reavley is badly wounded in Flanders attempting to

Angels in the Gloom is a masterpiece, steeped in history and radiant with truth. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English family—brothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley, and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. Once again, this icy, anonymous powerbroker, the Peacemaker, is plotting to kill.Perry’s kaleidoscopic new novel illuminates an entire world, from the hell of the trenches to a London nightclub where a beautiful Irish spy plies her trade; from the sequestered laboratory where a weapon that can end the war is being perfected to the matchless glory of the English countryside in spring. It warms the heart even as it chills the blood.. Only Hannah, living with her young children in the old family home in tranquil Cambridgeshire, seems safe.Appearances, however, are deceiving. By the time Joseph returns home, rumors of spies and traitors are rampant in Cambridgeshire. In March 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are fighting not only the Germans but the bitter cold and the appalling casualties of the Battle of Somme. And when the body of a savagely murdered weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over the town—alo

ANNE PERRY always tops in historical fiction Historical fiction always brings such depth to understanding. ANNE PERRY never disappoints.. ellen said Anne Perry still has the touch!. Angels in the Gloom continues the saga of the Reavley family and the deaths of their parents, the mystery of a treaty that could have changed the course of history, and graphic scenes of WWI front lines. This book centers on Joseph Reavley, a chaplain, who is wounded and is sent home to recover. We see the homelife in WWI England, and the horror of attacks in London. Mrs. Perry is an expert in the history of the Victorian Era and the era of WWI. Everything is succinct and not a word frivolously wasted.This new series is as satisfying as her other works.Makes m. Amazon Customer said War for real not for romance. All of the WWI books are well written and very thought provoking. While each one can stand alone reading them in sequence makes for an all too terrible glimpse into this most ridiculous war.