Dead Man’s Land – A Doctor Watson Thriller (Paperback)

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Dead Man’s Land is set amid the mud and slaughter of the Western Front, where death has become so routine it barely registers. In the trenches of Flanders, Dr John Watson serves as a medic, sidelined from combat but surrounded by its consequences. One corpse, however, refuses to be dismissed. The injuries are wrong, the expression frozen in terror, the cause of death inexplicable against the known horrors of war.

As further bodies appear, Watson is drawn into an investigation where certainty is a rare luxury. The enemy is not always across the wire, and trust is hard to place among men pushed to their limits. Clues surface slowly, half buried beneath chaos, exhaustion, and fear.

The novel leans into the claustrophobia of trench life, where violence is constant and unseen threats feel closer than ever. In Dead Man’s Land, Watson must step out from familiar shadows and confront a mystery shaped by mass death, moral ambiguity, and the unsettling idea that even here, something unnatural may be at work.