Two Storm Wood

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THE GUNS ARE SILENT. THE DEAD ARE NOT.

1919. On the desolate battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the dangerous task of gathering up the dead for mass burial.

Captain Mackenzie, a survivor of the war, cannot yet bring himself to go home. First he must see that his fallen comrades are recovered and laid to rest. His task is upended when a gruesome discovery is made beneath the ruins of a German strongpoint.

Amy Vanneck's fiancé is one soldier lost amongst many, but she cannot accept that his body may never be found. She heads to France, determined to discover what became of the man she loved.

It soon becomes clear that what Mackenzie has uncovered is a war crime of inhuman savagery. As the dark truth leaches out, both he and Amy are drawn into the hunt for a psychopath, one for whom the atrocity at Two Storm Wood is not an end, but a beginning.

Praise for Two Storm Wood:

'The world has been waiting for a worthy successor to Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong - now Philip Gray has delivered it' David Young, author of Stasi Child

'Atmospheric and meticulously researched, Two Storm Wood sheds light on the horrors and the trauma that continued even after the Armistice...a novel that informs while keeping you on the edge of your seat' Abir Mukherjee, author of The Shadows of Men

'Gray succeeds in entwining two powerful tales - a love story and a hate story - in a way that, right from the shocking start, is both convincing and enthralling' Virginia Baily, author of Sunday Times bestseller Early One Morning

'One of the most evocative thrillers I've ever read...Haunting, cinematic, and utterly gripping' D.B. John, author of Star of the North

© Philip Gray 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Critics Review

  • Although the novel is deftly plotted and the atmosphere all distorting fog and claustrophobic dugouts, its achievement lies in Gray’s finely worked portraits of the pity of war – those damaged by conflict and those who have to deal with its mind-altering consequences.

    The Times

  • Through a clever series of plot twists…Gray leads…his readers to the unexpected truth

    Sunday Times

  • Two Storm Wood is an impressive achievement. It sheds a powerful light on a neglected aspect of World War One history. I can’t recommend it enough.

    Alan Parks, author of Bloody January

  • I couldn’t put this down. A thriller and romance set amidst the post-Armistice battlefields and the damaged people trying to do right by the dead. Extraordinary setting, great characters, bursting with ideas.

    Dominick Donald, author of Breathe

  • Two Storm Wood has the literary class, intellectual depth, and thriller pacing of Robert Harris at his best–with an added spine-tingling aura of menace worthy of Stephen King. It’s the most chilling portrayal of a historical period since Philip Kerr’s novels of Nazi Berlin, yet at its core Gray’s masterpiece is a heart-rending story of sacrifice, love and loyalty overcoming the psychological tortures of the World War I battlefields.

    Matt Rees, author of Mozart's Last Aria

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