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Gideon's Revolution - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Gideon's Revolution - A Novel (Hardcover)
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It's 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his
treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is
discovered and Gideon's Revolution is about to begin. General
George Washington orders a secret mission for two Continental Army
soldiers to go behind enemy lines, abduct Arnold, and return him to
his countrymen to be tried and hanged. Washington selects one of
the soldiers, Gideon Wheatley, for the mission because Arnold would
trust him. Wheatley fought under Arnold's command at Saratoga and
tended to the gravely wounded general for several months at
Albany's military hospital. After feigning desertion to the British
Army to join Arnold's corps of loyalists, Wheatley and his comrade
John Champe seek out Washington's spies in New York and develop a
plan to seize the traitor. But when the abduction is foiled, the
soldiers are trapped by their own deceit and forced to fight
alongside Arnold's raiding army, as if they were traitors
themselves. Years after the war, pressed by memories that haunt him
and seeking redemption, Wheatley must decide whether he alone can
exact revenge on his former friend and commander, a decision that
sends him across the Atlantic to London to find and confront
Arnold. Gideon's Revolution is an American origin story based on
real historical events, an odyssey that reveals the profound human
tensions between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason,
revenge and the possibility of forgiveness.
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