![]() He is bitter, angry and horrified by the same time – he fears he turned from a soldier to a killer – in other words a fully-fledged character, as multi-faceted as you like. He admits to many crimes which in times of peace would earn him the capital punishment and during war brought him orders for services and admiration of his general and underlings. It is a very poignant fight, especially that we get some glimpses of close-to-reality war atrocities as he reminisces about Napoleonic wars – Devlin’s version of events is not sugarcoated by patriotic dross or any other propaganda and I enjoyed it very much. It is 19 th century so nobody even thinks of providing any treatment for veterans like him. A former soldier, he suffers of severe PTSD and he struggles day in day out to stay more or less normal, sober and responsible. ![]() The main hero, Devlin, is a huge asset – in fact the biggest one – of this book. ![]()
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