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The Broken Sword
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781642377668
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Published: Oct 22 2019
Pages: 578
Weight: 2.20
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Halifax, 1941. Reeling from his sister's death, seventeen-year-old Patrick MacQueen lies about his age to escape into the only future he can imagine: a soldier's uniform. But the war that shapes him will test more than his courage.
Recovering from a training accident in colonial Bermuda, Patrick falls under the spell of Lady Lemonton - a beautiful, worldly woman whose sympathies lie with the enemy, and who sees in him a soul worth winning to her cause. He escapes her orbit for the North Atlantic, where as a young Royal Canadian Navy officer he learns the true cost of duty hunting U-boats through the convoys' darkest years. But on leave in Ireland, Lady Lemonton finds him again.
By war's end, tempered by loss and command, Patrick faces his gravest test yet - not from an enemy abroad, but from his own government. Posted to St. John's as Newfoundland weighs its future, he is drawn into a secret conspiracy to defend a small dominion's right to choose its own fate. Torn between the oath he swore and the honour he was raised to keep, he must decide what a man owes his country - and what he owes his conscience.
Inspired by real events and a wartime generation, The Broken Sword is a sweeping coming-of-age saga of temptation, loyalty, and the price of principle - from convoy duty in the Battle of the Atlantic to a forgotten act of defiance on Newfoundland's road to Confederation.
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