Killing Ground Allen Lane But a much higher destiny

But a much higher destiny awaits Twig

Two glue-sniffing thugs are breaking into homes

drug dealers and sad

Pentecost leads his tribe of harvest mice from their polluted home to a new place of safety in the hills

But their lives are thrown into further disarray when the missing boy’s case is reopened – and this time they themselves are under police scrutiny

Killing Ground Allen Lane But a much higher destinyThe Western Ocean 1942. From the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant Commander David Howard's orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchat Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was a full scale war. A relentless, savage war against an ever present enemy and a violent sea in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS