1916, Bois de Bolante, France. The battles in the trenches are raging fiercer than ever. In a deserted mineshaft, French sappeurs discover an unconscious man, and nickname him The Mole.<br /><br />Claiming he has lost his memory, The Mole is convinced that he&#39;s dead, and that an Other has taken his place. The military brass considers him a deserter, but front physician and psychiatrist-in-training Michel Denis suspects that his patient&#39;s odd behavior is stemming from shellshock, and tries to save him from the firing squad.<br /><br />The mystery deepens when The Mole begins to write a story in &eacute;criture automatique that takes place in Vienna, with Dr. Josef Breuer, Freud&rsquo;s teacher, in the leading role. Traumatized by the recent loss of an arm, Denis becomes obsessed with him, and is prepared to do everything he can to unravel the patient&#39;s secret.<br /><br />Set against the staggering backdrop of the First World War, The Shadow Of The Mole is a thrilling tableau of loss, frustration, anger, madness, secrets and budding love. The most urgent question in this extraordinary story is: when, how, and why reality shifts into delusion?<br /><br /><i>&quot;The Flemish writer Bob Van Laerhoven writes in a fascinating and compelling way about a psychiatric investigation during WW1. The book offers superb insight into the horrors of war and the trail of human suffering that results from it&quot; </i><b>- NBD Biblion</b>