Major Benjamin Mapp-Flint, the town’s only
resident warrior, enjoyed an esteem even greater than had been his when, on one
never to be forgotten occasion, he had briefly (and erroneously) been clothed
in the glamour of the desperate duelist. The fact that both participants in this affair
of honor had sought to escape to London by the early morning train and had
converted their rencontre into a
round of golf in no way diminished the antique splendour of the incident.
(from Lucia In
Wartime, by Tom Holt)
6½*/10. The full review is here.
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