Spoils - Limited Edition"Clear, authentic and beautifully written, Spoils is a book about war for people who dont like books about war. Van Reet gives us a thriller that is not a thriller, but a grave and fierce description of the moral battlefield behind the headlines from Iraq." (Anne Enright) "I read this with awe. Spoils is a harrowing and incredibly powerful debut which shows war in all its complexity and viciousness and which attempts to humanise it through

he still has the key

Lee and his daemon

That Julian Trent only receives eight years seems all too lenient

a demonstrably unstoppable hitman

quadriplegic ex-cop Angelo

The scent of blood is in the water

Soon after

a six-year-old girl called Amy is left at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy and wonders why her mother has abandoned her

But what does it matter if people believe in the legend or not

The arrival of a ragged man at the Geminus household sets in motion a series of events which take Flavia and her three friends to an opulent villa by the sea at Laurentum

where young Arthur de Caldicot practises his tilting and archery

Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future