Desert War

by Griff Hosker Book 4 in the Soldier of the Queen series.

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Jack Roberts returns from the Sudan with a crippling wound that appears to have ended his active military career. Instead he is sent to Iran on a mission connected with Britain’s search for secure oil supplies for its increasingly oil-dependent navy, drawing him into strategic competition far from the battlefields he already knows.

At home, Roberts leaves behind a son beginning a military career of his own. The story therefore shifts the family’s experience of service from one generation to the next, while the imperial concerns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries move toward a new age in which oil, naval power and regional influence are becoming inseparable.