Foreign Legionnaire, Alain Eschbon has painted a picture of La Marianne for the new Corsican banknote, but is the girl French? Dragoon Raoul Belancoeur is sent to Calvi, Corsica, to find out. Is Colonel Henri Iver, head of 2REP, attempting a cover up? Does the Legion still look after its own?
Jean Gillot, a car thief on the run after the accidental killing of a mafiosi, certainly hopes so. In other stories an ageing pirate radio disc jockey returns to the North Sea. On the remote Scottish coast onetime Legion officer, Martin Calignac, runs an adventure training school. Journalist Stevie Kelso sets out to infiltrate the school as she confronts an age old quandary. On the Welsh borders an unlikely goth-girl tries for Sandhurst with a little help from an old legionnaire turned poacher.
Former industrial editor, John Musgrave, lives on the Welsh borders. 'Soldiers of the Heart' is his first book of short stories. John Musgrave started out writing song lyrics for a rock band. After living in the desert by the Red Sea, working on construction sites in Germany and London and serving in the Foreign Legion, Musgrave became a jobbing writer at various in-house PR set ups.
Later he edited a national trade magazine. All this changed after a long pilgrimage across Spain. By the cathedral at Santiago de Compostella John swore an oath to write for real. Encouraged by fellow buskers, Spanish friends and Galician cuisine, he walked on to Finisterre pacing out the first of the stories that appear here. John Musgrave lives quietly on the Welsh borders.
