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1 y separately published work icon Killing Kitchener Steve Sailah , Mosman : Steve Sailah , 2017 14784575 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'One bloody bullet gets you in the end, he said as he coughed up a mouthful of blood and exhaled one last long breath…’ 
'A single murder lies at the heart of this compelling crime mystery that moves from the battlefields of Turkey and Palestine to the storm-tossed North Atlantic during World War One.
'It is 1916 and teenage sniper Thomas Clare knows only too well what a single bullet can do as he struggles with his ghosts from the blood-soaked gullies of Gallipoli.
'A first love affair in exotic Cairo helps him bear the pain of lost comrades, until a corrupt policeman from his past turns up dead. 
'Thomas unearths a mystery connecting his murdered parents to war crimes committed a generation before – the only clue, a blood-stained bayonet.
'Accompanied by Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas soon finds himself in the middle of a plot to assassinate the British Empire’s most famous warrior.
'KILLING KITCHENER – a powerful novel of adventure, love and betrayal – is for everyone who has ever wondered about the price of murder in war.'  (Publication summary)
 

1 1 y separately published work icon A Fatal Tide Steve Sailah , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2014 7451593 2014 single work novel historical fiction

'A powerful novel set in Gallipoli, that's part war-story and part mystery. 'Amid Gallipoli's slaughter he hunted a murderer . . .'

'It is 1915 and Thomas Clare rues the day he and his best friend Snow went to war to solve the murder of his father.

'The only clues – a hidden wartime document and the imprint of an army boot on the victim's face – have led the pair from the safety of Queensland to the blood-soaked hills of Gallipoli.

'Now not only are Thomas's enemies on every side – from the Turkish troops bearing down on the Anzac lines, to the cold-blooded killer in his own trench – but as far away as London and Berlin.

For, unbeknown to Thomas, the path to murder began thirteen years earlier in Africa with the execution of Breaker Morant - and a secret that could change the course of history . . . '

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