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Revolutionary Blues
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781807042622
Publisher: Woodbridgepublishers
Published: Oct 23 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charlie O'Brien, an expatriate American and decorated British Army officer, has seen enough of war's carnage to last a lifetime. Once hailed as a brilliant inventor and strategist, he walks away from the trenches of France-not out of cowardice, but in defiance of the powerful men who profit from endless slaughter. Chief among them is Lord Wentworth, an industrialist whose reach extends from the battlefield to the halls of government, and whose vendetta against Charlie is as personal as it is political.
Haunted by the ghosts of soldiers he couldn't save and hunted by bounty hunters eager for the price on his head, Charlie rides a dangerous trail across 1920s Texas toward the only sanctuary left to him-the fiercely independent Yaqui people of northern Mexico. Along the way, he finds himself drawn into battles that are not his own: protecting a young Mexican couple from brutal lawmen, outwitting mercenaries in the desert, and crossing paths with strangers whose fates will be forever linked to his.
But every mile closer to freedom brings him face to face with the choices that made him an enemy of the state-and the man he has become because of them. Torn between the hope of redemption and the weight of guilt, Charlie must decide whether to keep running or to stand and fight the forces that have shaped his life.
From the mud and blood of the Arden Forest to the sun-scorched borderlands of the American Southwest, Revolutionary Blues is a sweeping historical novel of war, politics, and the resilience of the human spirit. M. J. Politis weaves a vivid tapestry of history and fiction, blending action, moral complexity, and deeply human characters in a story that asks: What is the price of survival when your enemy is the world itself?
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