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description: Traumatised by the nightmare of trench warfare in France Robert Blake turns to rent boy Jack Anderson for solace. Neither man expects their business relationship to go quite so far.It is 1919 less than a year after the end of the First World War with a recovering Britain in the grip of the influenza pandemic. Crippled veteran of the Somme battle Robert Blake is looking for someone to ease his nightmares of France and his guilt over what happened to his commanding officer. He turns to educated rent boy Jack Anderson for physical solace not expecting how deeply the two soon become immersed in each other's lives.
language: English
title: Half a Man
publisher: Silver Publishing