DEATH SPIRAL

This complex, multi-layered thriller opens with a hero’s welcome for Wilf McLauchlin, a celebrated Canadian Spitfire fighter pilot during WWII, who miraculously survived his own hero’s injuries.Romance blossoms while Wilf is temporarily perched at his father’s law office until he can resume his legal studies, but almost immediately he seems to be a magnet for dark and violent crimes that begin seeping from the small town in the war’s aftermath.Is Wilf the common motivating element in all these crimes, as he begins to fear? And what happened to him in Europe during the War?Wilf was shot down in Germany, near Buchenwald, and lost his sight for three months. There are several missing days, from the time of his crash to the time he was found by American soldiers. What happened in those intervening days?Death Spiral is an engrossing thriller, a literary tour-de-force, and a meditation on the deforming nature of war for aggressors, heroes, and by-standers alike.