Bøger af Robert J. Shade

Conflict in the Chesapeake Tidewater!It's early 1776: England's North American colonies are in revolt against their king and parliament. At Boston, George Washington holds the British occupation force under siege. In Philadelphia, the Continental Congress debates independence. To the south, Virginians are locked in a struggle with Governor Lord Dunmore's Loyalist army fighting to hold the colony for the crown.At his farm near Winchester, gunsmith Wend eckert expects to spend the war manufacturing muskets for the Patriot cause. Then, one April dawn, his world goes up in flames at the hands of Dunmore's henchmen Barrett Penfold Northcutt and Archibald Welford. With vengeful rage in his heart, Eckert accepts the command of a company of light foot and marches to join the fight to drive Dunmore from his island base in the Chesapeake Bay.In this third volume of the Rebellion Road Series, Robert J Shade wraps a gripping tale of intrigue, combat, and revenge around Virginia's role in the early days of the war. Readers of the series will welcome the return of familiar characters and discover new faces: An Irish soldier of fortune, a southern cavalry officer of questionable lineage, a young ensign of wealth and privilege, a defiant woman of color.So don your hunting shirt, strap on your backpack, take your firelock in hand and follow Wend Eckert as he journeys along hazard-filled road of war and independence.

An Epic Chase in the Turbulent Opening Days of the American Revolution!The year is 1775: Britain's North American colonies have risen in revolt against King George and Parliament. In the wake of Lexington and Concord, George Washington commands a ragtag militia army besieging British occupied Boston. At Philadelphia, the Continental Congress is debating the future course of the colonies: Negotiated reconciliation or independence? Meanwhile, in Virginia, Royal Governor Lord Dunmore has fled Williamsburg but has assembled a strong force of loyalist troops fighting to reestablish his authority over the rebellious colony. Against this background, Winchester gunsmith Wend Eckert delivers a supply of urgently needed muskets to Colonel Patrick Henry, who is forming a regiment to battle the royalist forces. But instead of being welcomed with gratitude, Eckert finds himself denounced as a spy because of his past relationship with Lord Dunmore. To clear himself, he must track down and capture British Colonel John Connolly, who is leading a plot to instigate a devastating Indian attack against the the middle colonies. Adding insult to injury, Eckert is forced to ride under the command of his accuser, a duplicitous officer motivated by dangerous ambitions. In the style of his earlier Forbes Road Series, Robert J Shade debuts the new Rebellion Road Series by skillfully weaving an action packed, fast-paced tale of deceit, danger, and redemption around the history of a true but little known incident which shaped the early days of the Revolution.

This is the fourth volume in the Forbes Road Series.A Conspiracy at the Forks of the Ohio!The ten years since Wend Eckert fled Pennsylvania at the order of the Cumberland County Sheriff have been good for him and his vivacious wife Peggy. On their farm near Winchester, Virginia, Wend's gunsmithing trade has prospered and the couple have been welcomed into local society. But the year is now 1774, and everyone feels the cold shadow of growing tension with the King's Government as the British Army occupies a defiant Boston to enforce the Intolerable Acts. British Governor Lord Dunmore recognizes the signs of impending insurrection and, with a ring of henchmen which includes duplicitous merchant Richard Grenough, concocts a scheme intended to keep Virginia's colonists loyal. His men seize control of Pittsburgh and then treacherously provoke the Shawnee and Mingo tribes of the Ohio Country into a vicious war against the Virginia settlements. With the frontier in flames, Dunmore calls a militia army of border riflemen to arms, promising subjugation of the Indians and generous land grants in Ohio and Kentucky to veterans.Against his will, Eckert is dragged into the conflict and forced to march as part of an expedition against Shawnee villages along the Muskingum River. Dispatched on a secret mission, he finds he must stand in single combat against a vindictive warrior to reunite with the son he conceived years ago with Abigail Gibson, English medicine woman of the Mingo.Meanwhile Peggy becomes involved with a mysterious gentleman of highborn manners who visits Winchester and begins a seductive pursuit of her favors. Then, on a dark, blustery spring night of 1775, Wend, defying Peggy's explosive anger, rides out alone to keep the pledge he made over his father's grave and exact final vengeance on Richard Grenough.Near the Shenandoah River, Eckert confronts Grenough under startling circumstances and with an outcome neither could have predicted.