The Coldest Night

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly consumes him. But when young Mercy€™s disapproving father threatens Henry€™s life, Henry runs as far as he can€”to the other side of the world.The time is 1950, and the Korean War hangs in the balance. Descended from a long line of soldiers, Henry enlists in the marines and arrives in Korea on the eve of the brutal seventeen-day battle of the Chosin Reservoir€”the turning point of the war€”completely unprepared for the forbidding Korean landscape and the unimaginable circumstances of a war well beyond the scope of anything his ancestors ever faced. But the challenges he meets upon his return home, scarred and haunted, are greater by far.Robert Olmstead€™s riveting new novel is not only a passionate story of love and war, it is a timeless story of soldiers coming home to a country with little regard for, and even less knowledge of, what they€™ve confro