What would you do if your father was suspected of war crimes?
Would you look for evidence of his guilt?
What if your wife was a victim of torture?
Would you seek revenge?
How would you cope with looking after a loved one changed by a terrible accident?
Would you contemplate ending their pain?
What would you do if you found out your mother had been lying to you for your whole life?
Would you seek out the truth?
The answers to those tough questions are in The Good Soldier - a collection of heart-warming and heart-wrenching short stories about love, loss and lies.
The Good Soldier contains:
The Good Soldier - a woman visits her father, a suspected war criminal.
The Lost Man - a man struggles to cope in the aftermath of a tragic accident during a trip to the Lake District.
Illuminations Every Day - a teenage girl from Blackpool finds out the truth about her father.
Imprisoned - a man returns home after a war, finding everything changed.
Club Med - a young doctor has a drug problem and a desperate need to succeed.
Yearning Like A God in Pain - a jazz musician battles alcoholism and his dark past.
The Beautiful People - two beautiful people arrive on a vacation with a secret.
The Good Soldier includes seven contemporary short stories for a quick read.
Other books by John Moralee
John Moralee is the author of the Rhode Island murder mystery novel Acting Dead, the British zombie apocalypse thriller Journal of the Living, and the comic fantasy tale Crowning Achievements: The Legend of King Arthur - as well as over two-hundred short stories. He lives in the UK, where his fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories, Clockwork Cairo: Egyptian Steampunk, Visions III-V, Crimewave, and the British Fantasy Society's magazine.
John Moralee's short story collections include Bloodways (horror), The Bone Yard and Other Stories (horror), The Quick and the Dread (horror), Dead and Gone (crime), The Good Soldier (contemporary fiction) and The Tomorrow Tower (science fiction).
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