The Dark Land

Authors: Sherman, Jory
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC033000
ISBN: 9781101191484, Related ISBNs: 0425180662, 1101191481, 9780425180662, 9781101191484
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Brad Chambers is a shell of a man. The Confederate Cavalry of the West is disbanded. The South’s cause is lost forever. And he’s seen too much blood and death for one man’s lifetime. All he wants is a reason to go on. 
 
He finds it when his hated nemesis, Abel Thorne, burns a trail of destruction across Texas, slaughtering ex-slaves and wealthy landowners who have bowed to the Union. Chambers has waited years to find Thorne—the man who caused the destruction of his home and family—and now the time for vengeance is at hand.
 
But to track down Thorne, he will have to do the unthinkable, and fight alongside his old enemy—the Union Army...
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