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THE LAST HORSEMAN

David Gilman

A father's epic quest to save his son from brutal war — a stunning standalone from this superb storyteller
Dublin, 1899

On a foul night in a troubled city, a young man is hanged. His lawyer, Joseph Radcliffe, bears witness. Radcliffe, together with his black American comrade Benjamin Pierce, has made a living defending the toughest cases in Dublin, but is haunted by the spectre of his defeats, the loss of his wife and child and his difficult relationship with his surviving son, Edward.

While Ireland smoulders with rebellion, war breaks out in South Africa and when, after an argument with his father, Edward runs away to join the Irish forces fighting there, Radcliffe, accompanied by Pierce, sets out to find him and bring him home.


South Africa, 1900

Both Radcliffe and Pierce have known war. Former cavalrymen in the US army, they have seen enough killing to last them a lifetime. But eight hundred miles north of Cape Town, amid the trackless veld, they experience the bloody brutality of a conflict that the British generals are shocked to discover they are losing.

Under fire from Boer snipers and artillery, distrusted by the British forces, the two old soldiers will find their survival skills tested to the hilt as they search for the missing boy in this epic tale of heroism and treachery, love and loyalty.
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Published by Head of Zeus

Comments

‘What Gilman does superlatively is heart-pounding action.'

‘Gripping and full of action, but is also smart and subtle about questions of loyalty and guilt in a war with few good guys.'