Publish and Perish Pride and Predator Pursuit and Persuasion Out of the Ruins Watches of the Night Code of Silence Watches Of The Night Coming out in the UK March 29, 2008 Out in US June 2008 PRE-ORDER HERE 
In 1962, in Watches Of The Night (the completed fifth book), thirty-eight year old Ben Reese has to hunt down an American Tech Team officer whom he'd met in WWII (and suspected then of murdering an American soldier) after a woman friend of Ben's receives a damaged package. Lost in 1944, it's hand delivered in 1961 by a conscientious postman from a U.S. Dead Letter Office. The package contains a preserved eye that belonged to Kate's long dead paratrooper husband, which leads Ben and Kate to search for the Scottish sender. His murder takes Ben back where he doesn't want to go -- to his own war, to his own sense of guilt for not having stopped the Tech Team leader after the Battle Of The Bulge, to his own hunger to revenge the dead, even though he knows in his soul personal revenge is wrong. Ben tracks the killer from Lexington to Woodstock, to Scotland and Tuscany -- finally, to save Kate.
This is the first Ben Reese with direct scenes from World War II. They show people and events often referred to in the first four books: Ben's experiences as a scout in the war; the firefight in which he was wounded; his flight to a hospital in Paris, strapped under a Piper Cub, which ultimately saved his life; his relationship with his fiancé; his fear of marriage if he's permanently disabled; his decision, finally, to make her the wife we see him mourning in the first four books; his search for God while in the hospital that leads him to read the holy books of the world's great religions, then make a decision that takes him home. Read an Excerpt: [PDF] [Text] Buy the Book: |
