The queen's captain / Peter Watt.
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TextSeries: Watt, Peter, Captain Ian Steele ; 3.Publisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: 358 pages : 1 map ; 23 cmContent type: cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760555344Subject(s): Steele, Ian, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863 -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Waikato War, N.Z., 1863-1865 -- Fiction | Maori (New Zealand people) -- New Zealand -- Waitako -- History -- Fiction | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction | India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction | New Zealand -- History -- 1843-1876 -- Fiction | Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 -- Fiction | Impersonation -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Soldiers -- Fiction | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction | New Zealand -- History -- 1843-1876 -- Fiction | India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | War fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel Forbes is a lieutenant in the 3rd New York Volunteers and is facing the Confederates at the Battle of Mission Ridge in Tennessee. Neither is aware their lives will change beyond recognition in the year to come. In London, Ella, the love of Ian's life, is unhappily married to Count Nikolai Kasatkin. As their relationship sours further, she tries to reclaim the son she and Ian share, but Nikolai makes a move that sees the boy sent far from Ella's reach. As 1864 dawns, Ian is posted to the battlefields of the Waikato in New Zealand, where he comes face to face with an old nemesis. As the ten-year agreement between Steele and Forbes nears its end, their foe is desperate to catch them out and cruel all their hopes for the future.
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"From India to America and New Zealand... action, intrigue and family drama."--Cover.
In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel Forbes is a lieutenant in the 3rd New York Volunteers and is facing the Confederates at the Battle of Mission Ridge in Tennessee. Neither is aware their lives will change beyond recognition in the year to come. In London, Ella, the love of Ian's life, is unhappily married to Count Nikolai Kasatkin. As their relationship sours further, she tries to reclaim the son she and Ian share, but Nikolai makes a move that sees the boy sent far from Ella's reach. As 1864 dawns, Ian is posted to the battlefields of the Waikato in New Zealand, where he comes face to face with an old nemesis. As the ten-year agreement between Steele and Forbes nears its end, their foe is desperate to catch them out and cruel all their hopes for the future.
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