THE RENEGADE

<p>1943. The closing stages of the titanic struggle between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia at The Battle of Stalingrad. <br></p><p>Pavel a young motorcycle despatch rider searches for Major Nikolai Solov an experienced officer skilled in the art of partisan warfare. <br></p><p>A letter from military HQ orders Solov to report to Moscow. He is understandably apprehensive as he has fallen foul of higher authority before and his father was one of a million or so to die in a labour camp during the murderous purges of the 1930s having stayed loyal to Leon Trotsky. <br></p><p>Solov a veteran of many wars made his name in 1941 by organising and fighting with the partisans behind enemy lines. <br></p><p>His superiors in Moscow now have a new assignment for him: to open a mini-Second Front involving British Commandos. <br> <br></p><p></p><p></p><p>'An epic and powerful novel about war. And a timely reminder that cynicism and deception are nothing new' - Mark Piggott author of <em>Fire Horses </em><br></p><p>'Fast-paced unpretentious and exciting. Reads like a Tarantino <em>Pulp Fiction</em> of the Eastern Front' - Lee Garratt author of <em>Where the Skylark Sings</em> <br></p><p>'Belonging isn't a place or a flag but the people we stand beside. Chris Robinson shows us <em>real</em> unity' - Martin Mellett author of <em>The North Star</em> <br></p><p>'Major Nikolai Solov seems to have jumped out of the pages of a Graham Greene or John le Carré novel' - David Stephens author of <em>The Disappeared</em> <br></p><p></p>