The Damascened Blade J.T. Greathouse A necessary eye for squalor

A necessary eye for squalor

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The Damascened Blade J.T. Greathouse A necessary eye for squalorThe North West Frontier, 1910. The screams of a wounded British officer abandoned at the bottom of a dark ravine are heard by a young Scottish subaltern. Ignoring the command to retreat back to base the Highlander sets out alone, with dagger in hand, to rescue his fellow officer from the Pathan tribesmen who are slowly torturing him to death. Over a dozen years later the backwash of this tragedy threatens to engulf Joe Sandilands. After a skirmish