He just wanted to go home. The generals had other plans.
August 1918. Amiens, France. Allied armies have driven a massive hole in the German lines. But the enemy is regrouping. Major Malcolm MacPhail is an intelligence officer, a veteran of countless battles and too outspoken for his own good. Now he’s worried. Every Fritz on the Western Front seems headed their way, bent on preventing the breakthrough that might just end the war.
As the attack resumes and friends start to fall, Malcolm fears his own luck may finally be running out. It doesn’t help that he’s somehow stomped on another general’s toes. So when captured German booty goes mysteriously missing, and the nephew of an old nemesis appears with searching questions for him, the dangers at headquarters suddenly rival those of the battlefield.
The Great War is entering a pivotal and deadly new phase. For Malcolm, even victory may not be enough…
Entertaining and informative military historical fiction, ideal for fans of Dewey Lambdin, Robert Harris, Alan Furst and C.S. Forester.
Praise for MY HUNDRED DAYS OF WAR:
A Best Book of 2018 "This second adventure of WW1 Canadian intelligence officer Malcolm MacPhail is richly textured and atmospheric... Duthie has created a wonderfully convincing central hero, and he shades and deepens MacPhail expertly in this new book." -- Steve Donaghue, Open Letters Review
“An impressively researched and well written historical novel of Canada’s Hundred Days, 1918.” -- J.L. Granatstein, author of The Greatest Victory: Canada’s Hundred Days 1918
Darrell Duthie lives in the Netherlands, not far from the battlefields of the First World War. He grew up throughout Canada, but spent most of his youth in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Calgary, Alberta where he studied Political Science & Economics, and thought briefly of joining the Navy. Instead he moved to the Netherlands to complete an MBA. After a career in the European equity markets he embarked upon a new one writing historical fiction. Visit his website www.darrellduthie.com to sign up for his mailing list, and learn more about him and his books. The Malcolm MacPhail WW1 books are numbered in CHRONOLOGICAL order: 1) A War for King and Empire (1915-1916) - 2) Vicissitudes of War (1916-1917) - 3) A Summer for War (1917) - 4) Malcolm MacPhail's Great War (1917-1918) - 5) My Hundred Days of War (1918). Each can also be read on its own.