Frederick E Smith

The War God Frederick E Smith

KILLING IS THE BEST REVENGE.

Franz Kessler - one-time pacifist, German Army officer, deserter - is the War God. He's collected a renegade company - desperate German and American deserters, English ex-cons, Italian partisans, French crooks and a beautiful woman who infiltrates enemy positions. Worshipped by the local Italian peasants, they hand out stolen food and medicine while they massacre the soldiers of both sides.

When a bullet-hard American deserter shows up after shooting two MPs, he fits right in - almost. Joe Beccione wants to know too much. He wants to know why a cold, aristocratic officer like Kessler gets a demonic look in his eyes when he fires his machine gun. He wants to know what lust for revenge drives him to be...

THE WAR GOD

Frederick E. Smith (1919-2012) joined the R. A. F. in 1939 as a wireless operator/air gunner and commenced service in early 1940, serving in Britain, Africa and finally the Far East. At the end of the war he married and worked for several years in South Africa before returning to England to fulfill his life-long ambition to write. Two years later, his first play was produced and his first novel published. Since then, he wrote over forty novels, about eighty short stories and two plays. Two novels, 633 Squadron and The Devil Doll, were made into films.