“This is for lovers of adventure, the kind of people who would pick up a Louis L’Amour paperback from the rack by the checkout in a Wal-Mart to fill a quick few hours on a lazy afternoon. The soundtrack they hear as they flip the pages is Miklós Rózsa, and the adventures they imagine are in Technicolor, starring Charlton Heston, Lauren Bacall, Robert Taylor, or Ava Gardner. ”
BEN FREE is a fast-moving historical adventure about an autistic British major who finds comfort in rules and routines just as the American Revolution blows every rule apart. Sent to protect a tiny Loyalist village, Ben ends up commanding “Free’s Troupe,” a mismatched band of light infantrymen who spend their spare time performing Shakespeare. When Lexington and Concord ignite the countryside around them, the Troupe becomes Salthaye’s only defense against a militia leader driven less by liberty than by thirty years of grievance.