A novel about choices
His path leads from the opium courts of China to the Western Front, from makeshift field hospitals to the temptations of Paris, shadowed by the slow decay of an empire that promised order and left devastation in its wake.
It is the story of two brothers fighting for their lives and their souls in the maelstrom of the same war, and of the women who struggle to preserve their humanity as a world of dust and silver crumbles around them.
This is not a book about battles.
It is a novel about choices, about responsibility without reprieve, and the price one pays for carving one’s own path through the chaos of a dying age.
