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All Traitors Must Face Justice
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 498
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
All Traitors Must Face Justice is a British military-political conspiracy thriller about betrayal, manufactured patriotism, and a crime buried since the 1991 Gulf War.
At the centre of the story is Daniel Ward, a former Life Guardsman, who becomes involved after Callum Harland, the grandson of Gulf War veteran Trooper Owen Harland, is accused of publicly desecrating a Union Flag. The incident appears straightforward, particularly when the words ALL TRAITORS MUST FACE JUSTICE become associated with it. But Daniel quickly realises that Callum has been deliberately framed and that the flag burned in public was not the genuine article.
The real Union Flag is far more important than anyone initially understands. Decades earlier, during an operation at Wadi Seven in 1991, Owen Harland witnessed something he was never supposed to see. He discovered evidence of illegal arms dealing, corruption, espionage and the deliberate sacrifice of eleven servicemen. Before he could be silenced, Owen concealed photographic negatives and documents connected to Account Seven inside the flag, hiding them behind distinctive red stitching.
Thirty-five years later, powerful people are still prepared to kill to stop that evidence reaching the public.
Daniel joins forces with DCI Victoria Lennox, prosecutor Rebecca Shaw KC, Major Henry Ashcombe and others as they begin pulling apart the official version of events. Their investigation leads towards General Sir Charles Ravenscroft, a respected establishment figure whose public reputation conceals his connection to what happened in the Gulf. Alongside him is Simon Voss, representing the modern machinery that keeps the old conspiracy alive.
What initially looks like a story about somebody burning the Union Flag therefore becomes something much bigger. The desecration itself was staged. Public anger was deliberately manipulated. Callum was selected as the convenient traitor, while the real traitors were the men hiding behind rank, influence and respectability.
That is really where the title gains its second meaning.
At first, All Traitors Must Face Justice appears to be aimed at the young man accused of disrespecting his country. By the end, the reader understands that the words apply instead to those who betrayed their soldiers, corrupted the truth and allowed innocent men to carry the blame for decades.
The climax is not simply about Daniel getting revenge. It is about proving the conspiracy properly and bringing it into a courtroom, where the eleven dead men are named and their records and reputations can finally be corrected. The genuine flag, Owen's hidden evidence, the red thread and the surviving records all become pieces of the same thirty-five-year-old puzzle.
At heart, the book is about loyalty, remembrance, justice and what patriotism actually means. Its argument is that loving your country does not mean blindly protecting its institutions. Sometimes it means being prepared to expose the people within those institutions who have betrayed everything they were supposed to represent.
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