Davis profiles six real adventurers: General MacIver, who fought for Garibaldi, Don Carlos and a dozen other causes; Baron Harden-Hickey, self-proclaimed King of Trinidad; the young Winston Churchill; Philo McGiffin of the Chinese navy; the filibuster William Walker of Nicaragua; and Major Burnham, chief of scouts.
Non-fiction companion to Davis’s novel Soldiers of Fortune, as fast and entertaining as any romance. Download the free EPUB.