“It was the list of the old sins - lust, greed, anger, laziness, gluttony, and pride. At least three of those were going to cause trouble. And then, of course, there was the seventh, the most destructive of them all. Envy. We’d come to that one before the end.” 1916, and for Anson Scott, an American embedded undercover in a British regiment in France, the war is not what he'd expected and the opposing forces of love and hate are much more dangerous than the enemy.