Kirjahaku

Of the many myths that grew out of the Great War the story of Davy Geddes was perhaps the strangest.In a place where many had long since lost their faith in God, there were those who had come to believe in Geddes. A stranger among friends, he neither wrote nor received letters, was always the first to volunteer, no matter how dangerous the assignment, and yet no one could deny his luck. If an angel watched over him it was surely one of the fallen, but whether God or the Devil had put their mark on him, it was proof against the German bullets and bayonets.To fellow volunteers Pat Buchan and Abe Green he was a hero, and yet Geddes demonstrated little faith in the justness of the British cause and possessed even less regard for his own life. Where men clung doggedly to life amidst the mud and rats and barbed wire, Geddes appeared to have nowhere else to go.Amidst the killing fields of Europe, he was a man cursed to live where all others died. Who among his comrades would solve the enigma of Davy Geddes, and would they live to tell the tale?

Peter Affleck had always prided himself on the cold empiricism that guided him through life. If it made him distant from his wife and son that seemed a small price to pay for the wealth and status he enjoyed as a successful architect.But even the staunchest of atheists can discover faith when the life of their only son is at stake. Medical science having failed to cure his son's cancer, Peter recalls the myth of a mountain spring said to contain miraculous healing powers and convinces Michael to accompany him on a sponsored walk from Dundee to Arrochar, culminating in the assent of Beinn Narnain.Unable to confide his true reason for visiting the mountain to either wife or son, Peter finds himself embarking on a spiritual odyssey in an attempt to reconcile the lapsed faith of his youth with his desperate need to find a cure.Beset by doubt and self-recrimination, Peter finally arrives at the mountain, where he must face the sum of his fears.