Soldier of Fortune (Captain Rawson 1)
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: March 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780749080525
Subjects: Crime & mystery; Fiction; Fiction - Mystery/ Detective; Historical - General; Mystery & Detective - Traditional British; 1603-1714; 1660-1714; Great Britain; History; History, Military; Soldiers
Description: The first in a series of adventure novels featuring Captain Rawson - spy, linguist, sportsman, duellist, ladies' man and career soldier involved in the campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough during the war of the Spanish Succession. In 1685, young Daniel Rawson witnesses the regiment of his fierce Protestant father being destroyed by the troops of the Royal Army's second-in-command, John Churchill, and his Dutch mother narrowly avoiding rape at the hands of a soldier from the same platoon. After his father has been executed, Rawson and his mother leave Devon and sail for the Netherlands. In 1688, he returns to England as a soldier in the Dutch Army, supporting William of Orange in his bid to replace James II on the throne.