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How could it be the ancient slave long esteemed for his docility, now boasting of the murder even as he implores God for forgiveness? 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There could not be a worse moment for the young, fetching-but none too bright-third wife of a wealthy merchant to be brutally stabbed to death in her own backyard. With some factions in the city calling for peaceful protest while others howl for armed defiance, her foolish jests against the radicals had aroused bitter indignation, widespread contempt, and the family's mortification. When the slogan of the Sons of Liberty is discovered near her corpse, supporters of the imperial prerogative are quick to assign blame.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnexpectedly commissioned to seek out the truth, aspiring shipper Thomas Dordrecht's first duty is to his desperate employers, frantically working to put their ships to sea before the November first deadline. 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Our fresh-faced hero is Thomas Dordrecht, raised on a remote farm-now in the heart of modern Brooklyn-speaking both Dutch and English. Though he thinks himself unusually worldly, he has no idea what he'll face when he agrees to defend the claims of King George I in the brutal French and Indian War. In six exciting months, he gains a lifetime's education not only in honor, courage, and tenacity, but in rashness, cowardice, falsehood . \u003ci\u003eand murder \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAn Act of War \u003c\/i\u003e Ten months after the humiliating defeat and terrifying massacre at Fort William Henry-famously recounted in Cooper's \u003ci\u003eThe Last of the Mohicans\u003c\/i\u003e-the fierce, blood-soaked conflict still rages throughout North America. Seven soldiers of DeLancey's New York regiment went foraging, but only six returned. 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