Once the Deed Is Done Jill Halfpenny At once a reflection on

At once a reflection on America's past and present

24 hours to stop the crime of the century

SPECTRE is a merciless new enemy � a group of the world�s toughest criminals

her isolation melts away

Gyre will have to unite old allies – from all across The Splinter Kingdoms and the depths of Deepfire

Once the Deed Is Done Jill Halfpenny At once a reflection onThe new novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter 'A complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate novel about the unglamorous aftermath of war . . . A brilliant piece of story telling stubbornly hopeful' ANDREW MILLER 'Prose that is so lucid, so understated . . . this entire novel reverberates in ways that only haunt the reader more and more deeply, long after its last page' PAUL HARDING, Booker prize author of