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A pre-war amateur cycling career is cut short by call-up. Trained as a sniper the man whose name we never know for sure embarks for war-torn Europe. Undecided how to resume his life at the war's close and disturbed by what he has left behind on the Continent he is compelled to return dispensing first medical aid then something quite different.A further attempt to take up his cycling career is thwarted when he is inveigled into playing his minor part in a new - Cold - war. Finally settling for a retreat into peaceful obscurity he discovers even this is not to be.His story he learns has been turned into a novel. without his knowledge or approval. As he now reads comments on and corrects the novel he begins to struggle to distance himself from the false heroics and above all to reclaim his own death.