The Eye in the DoorCentral to this novel is Lieutenant Billy Prior, recently released from treatment for shell shock by psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers. Prior is in London, assigned to a domestic Intelligence unit. His position demands that he investigate an imprisoned female pacifist accused of plotting a political assassination - a woman who raised him as a child, and who now accuses him of betraying that childhood. At the same time, he has had a casual but intense sexual encounter with a fellow patient of Dr. |
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| Title | The Eye in the Door Volume 2 of Regeneration trilogy, Pat Barker |
| Author | Pat Barker |
| Publisher | Viking, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0670844144, 9780670844142 |
| Length | 280 pages |
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