This is the story of Friedrich ‘Freddie’ Wilhelm Harrison and his mysterious journeys into the past, present and future. Freddie is a bomb technician or more accurately, he is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist. Together with his ‘bomb squad’ he disarms unexploded bombs.
This is the story of Friedrich ‘Freddie’ Wilhelm Harrison and his mysterious journeys into the past, present and future.
Freddie is a bomb technician or more accurately, he is an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist. Together with his ‘bomb squad’ he disarms unexploded bombs.
Initially a shy and socially invisible young boy, Freddie was remarkably influenced by Mrs Rachel Clementine, his junior high science teacher. She taught him to ‘stand up and do it well’. In fact, on one occasion, he did it so well that he blew up her science lab with an experiment gone seriously wrong!
On a mission to Laos, the per capita most heavily bombed country in the world, Freddie joins the Canadian explosives team and meets the local Lao explosives expert, Ulani, who has a mysterious link to Mrs Clementine. He also meets Emily, Mrs Clementine’s niece. Emily is there to help with the rehabilitation of the land once it is cleared of bombs. She seems to love everyone and everybody loves her. So when it comes to romance, poor Freddie doesn’t stand a chance! However, Emily does agree to tell Freddie her Auntie Rachel’s life story. Only she can’t just start with Rachel, she has to go right back to Rachel’s mother, Madeline, the Red Cross nurse who is haunted in her dreams by the clandestine unnamed soldier who rescued her – the one with the tattoo of a cross on his upper arm…