| ISBN | 9780593051115 |
| Publisher | Bantam |
| Publication Date | 01/11/2005 |
| Format | Hardcover (240 x 144 mm) |
| The First Casualty - Ben Elton (2005) |
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| Plot |
| In Flanders in June 1917, a British officer and celebrated poet is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English soldier is arrested and, although he protests his innocence, charged with his murder. Douglas Konig, formerly a detective with the London police, soon discovers that both the evidence and the witnesses he needs are quite literally disappearing into the mud that surrounds him. |
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