Only Scott’s friend, the elegant, dandified David Alexander is impervious to the murderous rages of the Company Captain Tollman, a monstrous man who victimizes anyone who dares oppose him. While the soldiers are raring to fight, the commanding officer is antiquated and the officers themselves are divided into factions. But life in the trenches is far from what he had first expected. Embedded undercover in a British infantry regiment on the Western Front, Anson Scott – an American newspaperman – watches, waits and writes his articles in secret, sending them out uncensored for his readers in the USA. It is 1916 and the war in France is hot and about to get hotter. And then, of course, there was the seventh, the most destructive of them all. At least three of those were going to cause trouble. “All I needed to do was tick off the list of the old sins – lust, greed, anger, laziness, gluttony, and pride.
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