After surviving the horrors of the Great War, Paul Shenstone works as a police detective in 1920s Toronto. The murder of prominent industrialist Digby Watt gives him an opportunity to make his name on the force.
The waters are muddied when the investigation starts uncovering connections between the deceased and soldiers Shenstone knew in Flanders. What will Shenstone’s choice be if he has to arrest one of his own comrades? He has promised Watt’s attractive and independent daughter that he will bring the perpetrator to justice, but bonds forged in war are not easily broken.
“Yeah, I was at the battery that May afternoon when Horny Ingersoll had everything between his legs cut away by a piece of exploding field gun. When he hooked on the lanyard and gave it a pull, the breech block just flew apart. Even the gunners were stunned by the noise. The officer had telephoned for high explosive shells, and it was beyond miraculous none of the rest of us was hurt.”
