1917, Western Front, Ypres. A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can't get out. He is covered in mud. His skin is badly burned. And he can't remember anything. But his nightmare doesn't end there. He is tried and found guilty of cowardice, impersonating a fellow soldier and theft. He can barely speak, let alone defend himself. As the verdict is passed and he learns that the death sentence awaits him, he remembers two things: that he took something from a dead man in the trenches, and that the name his accusers have been calling him is not his. With time slipping away, Chris Ransom must try to remember the events that have led him to this moment, so that he can clear his name and save himself.
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1917, Western Front, Ypres
A soldier wakes up in a damp, dark basement. He can’t get out. He is covered in mud.His skin is badly burned. And he can’t remember anything. But his nightmare doesn’t end there.
He is tried and found guilty of cowardice, impersonating a fellow soldier and theft. He can barely speak, let alone defend himself. As the verdict is passed and he learns that the death sentence awaits him, he remembers two things: that he took something from a dead man in the trenches, and that the name his accusers have been calling him is not his.
With time slipping away, Chris Ransom must try to remember the events that have led him to this moment, so that he can clear his name and save himself.
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Chris Ryan was born near Newcastle in 1961. He joined the SAS in 1984. During his ten years in the service he took part in many dangerous missions, some of them in secret. He was also Sniper Team Commander of the anti-terrorist team. During the Gulf War, Chris was the only member of an eight-man team to escape from Iraq - three colleagues were killed and four captured. This was the longest escape and evasion in the history of the SAS and, as a result, Chris was awarded the Military Medal.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Sometimes You Wish Doing a Good Dead Would Never Go Unpunished,
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This review is from: One Good Turn (Quick Reads) (Paperback)
One Good Turn is a powerful, yet simple and quick tale set in Ypres, France during the Western Front of World War I 1917. It's got everything you could be looking for in a good quality short story, great strong main characters in both a hero and a villain, descriptive realism of the tension and horrors or fighting in the front lines of British troops, against the Germans. As well as the added tension of if all will turn out all right for Chris Ransom, a guy who gave everything for his fellow soldiers, his country just because it was the right thing to do and he thought it would save lives.
The basic plot of this short story is that Chris Ramon, a brave soldier who could have gone back to England on leave, but instead chose to take water to troops on the front line awakens with partial amnesia and in severe pain. He's badly burnt, dirty and is having trouble remaining conscious, yet alone move. Movement made more difficult due to the fact he's handcuffed to his makeshift bed in a dark damp basement. His captors aren't about to make his life more comfortable, viewing him as the lowest of the low, a traitor, thief and murderer of an allied soldiers. As they drag him to a makeshift courtroom he can't even remember how he got there, let alone his name, but he's shore it's not John Stubbs, the man on trial. You'll have to get this yourself to find out who John Stubbs is and the atrocious things he did, and why he's not in that basement, but Chris is. Is a great read and you should definitely do so. One Good Turn is part of the Quick Reads series of stand alone published short stories (it's 92 pages). If you're unfamiliar with the Quick Reads initiative, they are books published to increase literacy levels by encouraging those who don't like to read beyond magazines and comic books, to try fiction through cheap priced (current Quick Reads all sell of the rack for under two pounds in the UK) short story length fiction and non fiction. I definitely think this story achieves all those goals as it's so good, readers reading it will want to check out other fiction from the Quick Reads series, and even full length novels.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Well crafted!,
By Ingrid (Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Good Turn (Quick Reads) (Paperback)
This book has few pages and is easy to read - but don't get fooled by that. It has a well crafted and powerful story to tell. I'm really positively surprised (I wasn't expecting too much from it - usually not the kind of book I will pick up) and I ended up enjoying the book very much - although the story is not a happy one. It is a really engaging and well written story. Recommended indeed!
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