Brave Enemies - A Novel Of The American Revolution
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Praise for Brave Enemies
“Readers of Morgan’s Brave Enemies . . . are unlikely ever to take their eyes off the page—or even take a breath.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“Morgan . . . writes terrifically well of battle, portraying the tactics, equipment and close-range terror of 18th-century fighting.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A vivid, sometimes brutal, portrait of life in the Southern states during the war.”
—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“With a plot that tears through the Carolina underbrush like a spooked rabbit, Morgan’s novel of the American Revolution traces the gender-switching drama of Josie Summers, a pioneer girl raised in the same hardscrabble landscape of his 1999 bestseller, Gap Creek.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Powerful tale of American rebellion. . . . The novel starts with a bang and never stalls in its narrative pace. . . . Morgan has once again delivered a powerful and compelling novel that is certain to gain him more readers than ever.”
—Greensboro (NC) News and Record
“Scenes fly off the printed page, burning themselves into a willing imagination to ‘dominate memory.’”
—The Orlando Sentinel
“With tremendous narrative pace, a meticulous eye for colorful detail and a tight grasp of historical setting and military action, poet and novelist Morgan delivers a rousing and affecting tale of the American Revolution. [A] gripping story of love and desperation.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Morgan brings the past to life. . . . [His] eye for detail makes compelling reading whether he is describing working on a farm or fighting with muskets and bayonets.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“Resonant. . . . Military history buffs will appreciate the first-person account of the Battle of Cowpens. Romantics will enjoy reading John and Josie’s love story and their continual faith that the other is alive and that they will someday be reunited.”
—Winston-Salem Journal
“Gripping. . . . A riveting story of romance and a testament to the notion that in any honorable conflict, both sides can be hailed by the term ‘brave enemies.’”
—BookPage
“A colorful, historically realistic novel. It is a story of desperation, love and shocking events that occurred during the Revolution.”
—Daily Somerset (PA) American
“An important and deeply original novel, ambitious in its sweep, a love story set against a gritty and gripping backdrop of history that gives us a better understanding of ourselves.”
—Creative Loafing
“While the historical context of this story is stirring, the principal characters make it compelling. We have such an emotional investment in them because they are vulnerable yet courageous, resilient, and complex.”
—Our State (NC)
Table of Contents
Title
Contents
Brave Enemies
Prologue
One
Two
John Trethman
Three
Four
Five
John Trethman
Six
Seven
Eight
John Trethman
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
John Trethman
Thirteen
Fourteen
Acknowledgments
Reader's Guide
About the Author
Also by Robert Morgan
Copyright
Special Preview of THE ROAD FROM GAP CREEK
A Note from the Author
Chapter One