Web of Terror

by Anthony Masters

Cornered together in the old crypt, Patrick and the Colonel tell their tales of warfare. But when events take a terrifying twist, they are forced to really trust one another and guilty secrets begin to emerge..Cornered together in the old crypt, Patrick and the Colonel tell their tales of warfare. But when events take a terrifying twist, they are forced to really trust one another and guilty secrets begin to emerge.

192 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2004

About the author

Anthony Masters was a writer, educator and humanitarian of exceptional gifts and prodigious energy. He was, in the parlance of his spiritual ancestors, the ancient mariners, that rare voyager "as gracious as a trade wind and as dependable as an anchor".

He leaves 11 works of adult fiction – notably, Conquering Heroes (1969), Red Ice (1986, with Nicholas Barker), The Men (1997), The Good and Faithful Servant (1999) and Lifers (2001) – and was in the process of completing another, Dark Bridges, which he thought would be his best. Many of these works carry deep insights into social problems that he gained, over four decades, by helping the socially excluded, be it by running soup kitchens for drug addicts or by campaigning for the civic rights of gypsies and other ethnic minorities.

His non-fiction output was typically eclectic. It ranged from the biographies of such diverse personalities as Hannah Senesh (The Summer that Bled, 1972), Mikhail Bakunin (Bakunin: the father of anarchism, 1974), Nancy Astor (Nancy Astor: a life, 1981) and the British secret service chief immortalised by Ian Fleming in his James Bond books (The Man Who Was M: the life of Maxwell Knight, 1984), to a history of the notorious asylum Bedlam (Bedlam, 1977).

Reviews

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really interesting book. Uses a lot of history of the troubles in Ireland and how this affects the young and comparing this to an old man's view of war. It's touching, moving and shows that any one can be a victim of war, any good person can do a bad thing when pushed and that the young and the old have more in common than they will ever understand.

[Ying Stoop]

it's my first novel reading in English.