The Command — Christopher Nicole

France, 1914.

Murdoch Mackinder, Colonel in the Royal Western Dragoon Guards, prepares for active service.

But as Mackinder's career as a soldier and strategist, and his happy and successful marriage to his American wife Lee, both prosper, the ghosts of his past return to haunt him.

Margriet, the mother of his first son, flees her sadistic German husband, Paul von Reger, and throws herself on Murdoch's mercy. Mackinder's son, Ian, marries Margriet's daughter, to provide the protection of British nationality.

And a twist of fate brings Murdoch face to face with a friend, now turned bitter enemy, who has the excuse of war and a very personal reason for wishing to see Murdoch dead.