IN THE FIELD

A powerful story of modern war and those who survive it

Orin Perth, a young war reporter, arrives in a destroyed village in the Congo and stumbles across Christine whose son, Paul, has been snatched by the army. Orin and Christine embark on a journey to find Paul, following the wake of lives lost and irreparably changed. But when Orin disappears too, Christine finds an unlikely companion in his mother, Liz, who turns up to discover what happened to her estranged son. Neither mother will retrieve the son they knew and loved, but both must fight for their own survival as well as that of their children.

A taut, compelling debut from an exciting new literary talent.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jesse Loncraine was born and grew up in London. Jesse studied English Literature at Bristol, and later, Violence, Conflict and Development at SOAS (The School of Oriental and African Studies), with an emphasis on the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia, and the prosecution of atrocity crimes. Since then he has worked on documentaries, written and taught about the International Criminal Court, been a landscape gardener in New
York, and worked in a bowling alley bar. Jesse has three short stories published in The White Review, and lives and works in California.