商品簡介
Drawing on firsthand experience of combat, Rain is a searingly powerful novel in the bestselling tradition ofMatterhorn.
Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets of Belfast.
With the war in Afghanistan at its savage peak, Tom is despatched from home in the dead of an anonymous September night, a blood tribute leaving without fanfare. Full of eagerness, but wracked by self--doubt, he must discover who he is and what he is capable of.
But as the bonds with his comrades grow, home -- and the loved ones left behind -- seem ever more remote from the surreal violence and exhilaration of war.
作者簡介
BARNEY CAMPBELL lived in many places as a child, due to his father being in the British Army. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University. He in turn joined the Army in 2006, and was commissioned into the Blues and Royals. He served in Afghanistan on a tour of Helmand Province in the winter of 2009--2010. He lives in the Scottish Borders.Rain is his first novel.