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Love and Honor by Randall Wallace
From the New York Times bestselling author of Pearl Harbor and Oscar-nominated writer of Braveheart
comes an epic historical page-turner: the gripping, unforgettable story
of a patriot's secret mission in Russia to save America from certain
defeat on the eve of the Revolutionary War.
A brilliant soldier and
passionate patriot, Virginia cavalryman Kieran Selkirk is summoned to a
clandestine meeting in the winter of 1774. There he finds none other
than Benjamin Franklin, who reveals that the British have asked
Catherine the Great, the ruthless and mysterious ruler of Russia, to
provide twenty thousand of her soldiers to help stamp out the revolution
brewing in America. Such a force, fresh from brutal warfare with the
Turks, would crush all hope of American independence. Selkirk's
assignment is straightforward -- and astounding. He is to travel to
Russia disguised as a British mercenary, offer his services to the
Tsarina in putting down a Cossack rebellion that threatens her throne,
and convince her not to join the British in their war with America. To
succeed, he must cross savage terrain, battle starving wolves, avoid
secret assassins, fight marauding Cossacks, and contend with a court of
seductive young women. In a narrative full of passion and peril, of
battles on horseback and wars within the human soul, Selkirk's mission
meets with thrilling surprises, including a romantic face-off with the
legendary Catherine herself.
Told with the hand of a master storyteller, Love and Honor
is perhaps Wallace's most ambitious project yet, taking readers back to
the eighteenth century in a patriotic novel brimming with romance and
heroism on the grandest scale. Exotically transporting yet deeply
American, Love and Honor captures the fight for good over evil, integrity and compassion over cruelty, and true love over all.
(From Amazon.com product listing.)
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