A few days before the holiday in 1921, Rutledge is told to go to Kent, where a former member of Gen. Haig’s staff claims someone tried to kill him. The retired colonel remains demanding and abrupt, convinced that the man riding the horse deliberately steered into him. Rutledge can find no clues and begins to wonder if some part of the story is imagined. On his third night in town, he receives a call telling him the colonel is missing. When the colonel is found and recovers, he is a changed and reformed man who shares his deepest thoughts with his fellow front-line soldier, Rutledge.
This is the 25th book in the series, but the first in years—and the first since the death of the mother in this mother-son authoring partnership. It is only 214 pages long and is characterized as a novella. My conclusion is that the surviving son excels at the history and the strong sense of time and place, while the mother provided the intricate plotting. Hopefully, the series can and will continue.
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