THE FEARED AND THE FEARLESS by Guthrie Wilson (Corgi, 1956)
The blurb: The story
starts in a British post behind the German lines in Italy. This little group of
men was commanded by Captain Markham Faulkner, a hard and domineering man,
feared by both friend and ally, and known throughout Italy as Il Brutto. To the
post came Maria Cresswell, an American girl who fell under Il Brutto’s almost
hypnotic spell. The war was over, Maria was happily married and living in New
Zealand, Il Brutto was dead, but the past could not be forgotten. Often Maria
tried to brush away the phantom from the past that crept back into her mind …
telling herself that it was all over … finished …
Then one day it became a stark reality!
Craig Sisterson reviews an oldie. (found at Arty Bees Books in Wellington).
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