Edward Cline

Sparrowhawk: Book Six, War: a Novel of the American Revolution Edward Cline

Publisher Marketing: The American Revolution did not just happen. It was the culmination of two centuries of Enlightenment ideas that entered men's minds and were refined and honed until they expressed themselves in an unprecedented rejection of tyranny in the name of individual rights and political freedom from the whims of arrogant monarchs and conniving, power-lusting politicians. Sparrowhawk: Book Six, War, encapsulates that process in the story of an exiled young British aristocrat, Hugh Kenrick, and a former indentured felon from the British lower class, Jack Frake, who both reject the tyranny of the British Crown, become friends and neighboring planters, and form a bond that will enable them to take the first steps towards independence from the mother country. Hugh Kenrick becomes a burgess for his county and helps Patrick Henry secure the Stamp Act Resolves, but still believes that reconciliation with the mother country is possible and feasible. Jack Frake leads his Virginia militia up to Boston and Bunker Hill to help the northerners fight the occupying British army. But then the conflict reaches Caxton, Virginia, and the town has a taste of the violence to come. The Sparrowhawk, the merchant frigate that has carried the principal characters back and forth between England and Virginia, plays a central and dramatic role in the denouement of the series. The American Revolution was the capstone and apex of the European Enlightenment and an unprecedented philosophical and political event in human history. Contributor Bio:  Cline, Edward Edward Cline is the author of two detective series and one suspense series, in addition to a six-title collection of his political and cultural columns. Silver Screens is the eighth in his series featuring Cyrus Skeen, a private detective in 1920's and 1930's San Francisco. A second detective series features Chess Hanrahan, in modern times, another private eye who specializes in solving moral paradoxes and the murders behind them. Cline has also written Sparrowhawk, a popular six-title historical series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period. His articles and reviews have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, and Marine Corps League, and numerous other print publications. His political, critical, and cultural columns can be found on the weblogs of Rule of Reason, Capitalism Magazine, Family Security Matters and other venues. In this latest Skeen caper, the intrepid private detective wrangles with a Hollywood starlet and an ambitious and ruthless politician.