Lieutenant Moreau of His Majesty’s Royal Marines was not thrilled about his posting in the primitive, damp, cold Boston Town, a place filled with hostile colonists and spies. Unrest had driven the governor out, mad colonists dressed as savages had destroyed the King’s tea, and now there were suspicions that some of the local militia had gotten hold of cannon and other heavy weaponry, and planned to turn them on the British ships blockading the harbor. Most of all, he missed his sweetheart back in England.
African freedman Cuddy worked for Mr. Revere’s silversmith shop. His home was long since lost to him, and he had found some loyalty to the Americans’ cause of freedom from the British king – enough so that he found himself in a group of men engaged in the dangerous task of signaling riders from Boston’s Old North Church.
Innkeeper Mary Hartwell was bored and lonely with her husband gone to work with the Minute Men. She filled her time by observing the grim men of the colonies preparing for revolution – and helped them out when she could.
Moreau would soon find himself marching inland to find the missing weapons and anything else the colonists had stockpiled. Not that the mighty British troops would have much trouble with the American rabble if it came to a fight. On the contrary, they’d easily be whipped into shape and obey the King again.
Events would quickly prove him wrong and test the mettle of British soldier and American colonist alike. This sharply focused book brings the battles of Lexington and Concord to life.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Keith Korman’s gritty, dark and moody recreation of revolutionary Boston vividly plunges the reader into the sensory experience of another time and place. Deeply researched and briskly plotted, replete with authentic detail and written in the language of the times with numerous cameos of famous figures and events, the novel fully humanizes both sides yet viscerally conveys the seething resentment of British domination and abuse that led inexorably to war and the birth of American freedom."
--Adam Bellow, executive editor at Bombardier Books and author of In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
Genre: Historical
African freedman Cuddy worked for Mr. Revere’s silversmith shop. His home was long since lost to him, and he had found some loyalty to the Americans’ cause of freedom from the British king – enough so that he found himself in a group of men engaged in the dangerous task of signaling riders from Boston’s Old North Church.
Innkeeper Mary Hartwell was bored and lonely with her husband gone to work with the Minute Men. She filled her time by observing the grim men of the colonies preparing for revolution – and helped them out when she could.
Moreau would soon find himself marching inland to find the missing weapons and anything else the colonists had stockpiled. Not that the mighty British troops would have much trouble with the American rabble if it came to a fight. On the contrary, they’d easily be whipped into shape and obey the King again.
Events would quickly prove him wrong and test the mettle of British soldier and American colonist alike. This sharply focused book brings the battles of Lexington and Concord to life.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Keith Korman’s gritty, dark and moody recreation of revolutionary Boston vividly plunges the reader into the sensory experience of another time and place. Deeply researched and briskly plotted, replete with authentic detail and written in the language of the times with numerous cameos of famous figures and events, the novel fully humanizes both sides yet viscerally conveys the seething resentment of British domination and abuse that led inexorably to war and the birth of American freedom."
--Adam Bellow, executive editor at Bombardier Books and author of In Praise of Nepotism: A History of Family Enterprise from King David to George W. Bush
Genre: Historical
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