(8/17/2015)
Martin Fletcher has allowed the reader insight into what a war reporter tackles when covering volatile areas of war. This was a new experience for me and I was always expecting duplicity, lies and the horrible to happen to Tom! It began with all of this in the Prologue and so I was chomping through the story, anxiously wondering. . .? Will it or won't it happen again to Tom and Nina?
Expecting, with the end in view, that Tom would settle in and continue to be a lover, a husband and a father. Nina, the love interest, gave the tale a gentle touch and though she and Tom loved each other, had suffered terror together, the question haunted me, and like Tom, would she settle with Tom and become a devoted wife and mother. Is the pull of dangerous reporting greater than a stable life of love and a steady job of just reporting!?