Even those waging the fiercest battles just hew to hard fast rules
that separate the soldier from the savage. And when a man's home is
destroyed beyond restoration, it's up to him alone to forge a code
and carve a new place to live in peace. The Rule of Ranging 1:
Eclipse of the Midnight Sun is the epic action-adventure drama by
Timothy M. Kestrel that follows the fearless Finn on a journey
paved with bloodthirsty aggressors, mysterious women, and the rough
terrain of a fledgling America. Both grave and uplifting, it's an
absorbing flight of fancy and derring-do. Set in the eighteen
century, Kestrel's story is a work of historic fiction that relives
the most perilous days of the French & Indian War. The story
begins in Finland, just as a young boy named Finn witnesses the
complete annihilation of his home village, as well as the brutal
killing of his family by marauding Russians. He barely manages to
escape, chased by a merciless Hessian mercenary, Johan Kopf,
nicknamed Totenkopf. Following his dying mother's wish to find a
mysterious woman named Columbia, Finn's course takes him across the
Atlantic. He befriends a slave, Gus, and buys his freedom. On their
travels in this brave new world called America, the two make their
way through the majestic Hudson Valley in New York, and soon
encounter Marcus Fronto, a curious vagrant and philosophical
mentor; Daniel Nimham, a fierce Wappinger chief and warrior; and
beautiful Catherina Brett. They join forces with Robert Rogers
Rangers, and fight against the French at Fort Edward, New York,
during the Hudson River campaign in the 1750s. Action-packed and
rigorously researched, the story offers a rare vantage of a crucial
time in this country's coming of age that is at once funny,
heartbreaking, illuminating, and thrilling. Mining the depths of
love, freedom, greed, and loyalty, it's a page-turning,
heart-pounding read that is at once scholarly and scintillating -
steeped in history with a death-defying hero for the ages.
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