A Fall From Heaven Into WWI Trenches in ‘Angel Down’
In 'Angel Down,' his new novel set in France and Belgium during the First World War, a band of infantry misfits led by Private First Class Cyril Bagger emerges from the trenches and encounters a blinding celestial presence ensnared in barbed wire. Somehow, this ill-fated group frees the angel from entanglement and spirits her back to Allied HQ .