On the Warpath

A feisty veteran heroine faces one final battle Helen has always been a fighter. In the chaos of occupied France, she survived marauding German soldiers, the dangers of fighting for the Resistance and finally repatriation to Britain. In a stark post-war economy, she managed to carve out a career in journalism, rising to the heights of success. And when her divorced son left her holding the baby, it seemed like nothing she couldn't handle. After a long and successful life, at eighty she is making attempts to subdue her energy and settle down to retirement. But when a con artist fixes on her beloved grandson David, then retirement will have to wait. Instead, it is the beginning of a journey into France, her old battlegrounds, and a quest for retribution. For Helen Mercier is no sweet little old lady. She has fought for justice before, and if the criminal thinks he can get away with insulting her and hers, he has a surprise coming to him . . .

When a con artist fixes on her beloved grandson David, Helen decides retirement will have to wait. Instead, it is the beginning of a journey into France, her old battlegrounds, and a quest for retribution. For Helen Mercier is no sweet little old lady. She has fought for justice before, and if the criminal thinks he can get away with insulting her family, he has a surprise coming to him.

A veteran heroine faces one final battleHelen Mercier survived the occupation of France by the Nazis, dangerous missions with the Resistance, and life in the stark post-war British economy. When her divorced son leaves her to care for his baby, it seems like nothing she cant handle. But when a con man robs her beloved grandson, retirement will have to wait, as she returns to France, her old battleground, in a quest for retribution . . .

John Skelton was an ordained priest and rector. He was poet laureate at the University of Oxford and Cambridge University, a court poet for King Henry VII, and a tutor to King Henry VIII. Gerald Hammond is a professor of English at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Fleeting Things and The Making of the English Bible, and the editor of Selected Poems: Richard Lovelace.