Point of Honour
By Alan Scholefield
“Who was this man who had been held up to me as the epitome of Christian virtue, a man who was supposed to have saved a French village, who was said to have murdered a German officer, raped a child, who was supposed to have been a gentil parfit knight, and at the same time an adulterer; and above all a man who had given his country hope in one of its darkest periods?”
His name was Captain Geoffrey Baines Turner, VC.
Who better than a VC’s son to write the story of one man’s Dunkirk?
So thought the publishers and so thought David Turner himself as he started his research. But the quest that moved from the sale-room of Sotheby’s in Bond Street to Vienna and led to the coast of northern France, still littered with the debris of World War II, was to prove that the greed and violence of a man revered as a hero had repercussions for which David was to find himself responsible.
Point of Honour is the thrilling story of a man’s search for his father. It is drawn tight by the tension that distinguished his earlier thriller, Venom.
Alan Scholefield was born and educated in South Africa. After leaving university he became a journalist and travelled widely in southern and central Africa, Europe and America. He now spends most of his time with his wife and three daughters at their home in England. His short stories and nine previous novels have been published in Britain and America and translated into several languages.
