On November 1st 1916, 900 men of the 13th Battalion of the Pennine Fusiliers vanish without trace from the battlefield only to find themselves on an alien planet. There they must learn to survive in a hostile environment, while facing a sinister threat from within their own ranks and a confrontation with an inscrutable alien race! Pat Kelleher has worked in a variety of different editorial and authorial fields. Black Hand Gang is his first novel for Abaddon Books and the start of an exciting new series!