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John Bishop was born in Heswall on the Wirral and now lives in Codsall near Wolverhampton. Originally an English teacher, he was for six years a College Principal in Birmingham. In WW1 his grandfather was a sergeant with the Chinese Labour Corps, for whom he had a high regard. The lack of material he left – some photos and two Chinese paintings done on parachute silk – dictated that this book should be a novel. John Bishop has published a number of articles and short stories. As he didn’t give up the day job, this is his first novel.
THE CHINESE ATTACK
Pages: 400
Imprint: Vanguard Press
ISBN: 978 1 84386 8 919 1
And these were the men he’d been sent to betray…
November 1917. The War grinds into the mud. But why are 100,000 Chinese on the Western Front? Why are they suspected of plotting mutiny? And what guilty secrets from his past do they stir in 2nd Lieutenant Jack Reynolds?
Jack has always done his duty. Always obeyed orders without question. Until the murderous futility of war drives him not just to question but rebel.
However, protest leads to humiliation. And the Chinese Labour Corps. Where he’s plunged into a world of prejudice, suspicion – and deadly cat-and-mouse games in which the losers will pay with their lives.
Can Tien, his enigmatic servant, and the outspoken Eve, an Australian nurse desperate to hide her marital status, help him evade the malign reach of injustice?
If not, the firing squad awaits them. And Jack keeps making wrong decisions.
So in the end his choice is stark: ‘All or nothing,’ he shouted in Mandarin…
Good luck with the launch, looking forward to reading the book.