TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilman,David
TI  - The last horseman
SN  - 9781784974558
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Head Of Zeus
KW  - South African War, 1899-1902
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Americans
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - History
KW  - 1836-1909
KW  - War fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - Dublin, 1899: On a foul night in a troubled city, lawyer Joseph Radcliffe watches the execution of a young Irish rebel. Radcliffe, together with his black American comrade Benjamin Pierce, has made a living defending the toughest cases in Dublin, but is haunted by the spectre of his defeats, the loss of his wife and child, and his difficult relationship with his surviving son, Edward. While Ireland smoulders with rebellion, war breaks out in South Africa and when, after an argument with his father, Edward runs away to join the Irish forces fighting there, Radcliffe, accompanied by Pierce, sets out to find him and bring him home. South Africa, 1900: Both Radcliffe and Pierce have known war. Former cavalrymen in the US army, they have seen enough killing to last them a lifetime. But eight hundred miles north of Cape Town, amid the trackless veld, they experience the bloody brutality of a conflict that the British generals are shocked to discover they are losing. Under fire from Boer snipers and artillery, distrusted by the British forces, the two old soldiers will find their survival skills tested to the hilt as they search for the missing boy in this epic tale of heroism and treachery, love and loyalty
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