Verdon James, bright but suspect; unfocused yet determined; keen to serve but medically unsound; Bertie Wooster with Jeeve's brain. Above all loyal - to friends, country and ideals. Verdon nudges things that need nudging and these stories follow him from undergraduate to octogenarian and his final determined act of loyalty to a lover murdered under cover of the Blitz. An evocative and intriguing book, despite the odd jarring note both in the history and the characterisation.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 50 March 2009 ) |
