Powder for Drying Wounds

In an alternate World War I, the Great War has raged for nine relentless years. Trenches have
become nations, and sanity has become currency. Amid the ruins of Europe, a German professor
discovers an Elixir—a substance capable of reshaping human thought and awakening something
ancient in the human genome.
As the conflict grinds toward oblivion, Private Sam Cowan, a drafted soldier, and Sergeant Frank
Fieldlight, the last survivor of his Australian division, struggle against both the savagery of war and
the transformation of the mind itself. When an Allied war correspondent uncovers Fieldlight’s
desperate intent, the Elixir’s influence begins to spread—first through command, then through
species.
Powder for Drying Wounds is a haunting vision of evolution born from brutality, where war becomes
not an end in itself, but the next stage of human change.