Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead

Far Bright Star by Robert Olmstead

The year is 1916. The enemy Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches.
Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler, a horse who s as flinty and seasoned as he. But this time, Napoleon can t control one of his young soldiers who has a penchant for reckless, dramatic actions and who singlehandedly, in his desire to prove himself, makes a move that is the beginning of the end. Before long, Napoleon s patrol is at the mercy of an enemy who is intent not only on killing Napoleon s men but on something much bigger: avenging a brutal act.
Robert Olmstead describes the experience of battle so viscerally that the reader feels the fear, the danger, and the dread. With the precision of a master, he tells the harrowing and transfixing story of the last of these intrepid warriors.

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ISBN 13	9781565129801
ISBN 10	1565129806
Title	Far Bright Star
Author	Robert Olmstead
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Algonquin Books
Year published	2010-05-25
Number of pages	218
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