Blood on The Land
Author | : Paul Bedford |
Publisher | : Robert Hale Ltd |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780719822568 |
ISBN-13 | : 0719822564 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: In 1844, young British Army Officer, Thomas Collins, is sent to the fledgling Republic of Texas. His mission: to meet the legendary President Sam Houston to negotiate terms for the British Empire's involvement in his country. What Thomas finds is a world of subterfuge and danger. The republic is scourged by an implacable and deadly enemy, the Comanche Nation, for whom rape, pillage and bloody warfare is a way of life. His desperate fight for survival brings him into contact with Captain John Coffee Hays, and his effective Texas Rangers, and ends in a lethal climax aboard a steamboat on the unpredictable Brazos River.