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Robert Allison's debut novel reminded me a little of "Going after Caccatio", Tim O'Brien's brilliant saga of a group of US soldiers who walk away from the Vietnam War, mixed with Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" about a mysterious wounded soldier with no identity. "The Letter Bearer" is a cleverly crafted and skillfully paced narrative of a group of combatants thrown together by fate in the North African desert in 1942. Allison's characters are fighting several wars at once - against the stark, inhospitable landscape, against time, against memory and against each other. All have a death sentence of one kind or another hanging over them and eventually have only what they each carry and their individual inner strengths to draw on to survive. The Letter Bearer who carries the lightest load, is the most heavily burdened and has the furthest distance of all to go. A little over-written at times, this is an intriguing, thought provoking and gripping read.


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`The Letter Bearer' is found badly injured laying beside his wrecked motorcycle. He has no memory and he has been stripped of all identification. All he has left is his post-bag full of letters.

He is rescued by a rag-tag group of army deserters who have established a make-shift camp in the middle of nowhere.

When the camp is discovered by the enemy and attack is imminent the group must set off for safer ground.

Their trek through the desert is fraught with danger. Uppermost is their instinct for self-preservation and survival, a perilous situation for a ravaged group of men with no expectation of loyalty to one another and each with their own personal war raging inside.

An exceptionally well written story, the topography of the North Africa desert is described in tight vivid prose as well as the broken men struggling for survival in an unforgiving landscape.

As well written as the story is, the plethora of descriptive passages and the use of obscure words, left me wondering if the author was not trying too hard. When I was overcome with too much of it I plodded on only because I was totally invested in knowing the fate of `the rider' as `The Letter Bearer' is called throughout the book.
Hidden treasure! Loved this heart breaking book
Robert Allison's debut novel reminded me a little of "Going after Caccatio", Tim O'Brien's brilliant saga of a group of US soldiers who walk away from the Vietnam War, mixed with Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" about a mysterious wounded soldier with no identity. "The Letter Bearer" is a cleverly crafted and skillfully paced narrative of a group of combatants thrown together by fate in the North African desert in 1942. Allison's characters are fighting several wars at once - against the stark, inhospitable landscape, against time, against memory and against each other. All have a death sentence of one kind or another hanging over them and eventually have only what they each carry and their individual inner strengths to draw on to survive. The Letter Bearer who carries the lightest load, is the most heavily burdened and has the furthest distance of all to go. A little over-written at times, this is an intriguing, thought provoking and gripping read.