While earning a master’s degree of fine arts in creative writing at the College of Charleston, Marine Corps veteran Michael Jerome Plunkett began work on a project exploring the enduring scars of war on people and landscape through the lens of a group of men who are tasked with unearthing land mines left over from World War I.

Plunkett, a 34-year-old Ohio resident, will return to the Lowcountry 6 p.m. Wednesday at Buxton Books to promote “Zone Rogue,” his explosive debut novel.

The idea arose from a trip Plunkett made more than a decade ago as he was visiting the city of Verdun in northern France. The city was practically destroyed during World War I. Though it was rebuilt, there are thousands of unexploded ordnances still in the ground in the area around Verdun. Plunkett was fascinated

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