It’s 1864 and the Civil War is still ablaze. Young Charles Noble, a veteran of three years in the Union Army, limps off the battlefield to save his wounded leg from the surgeon’s saw. Believing that the Army considers him a deserter, he decides to lose himself in the untamed frontier towns of Kansas where the railroad is steadily bringing civilization westward.
Driven by nightmares of the war, a desire for adventure and an intense need to roam, he travels under the alias Charlie Bell becoming embroiled in a series of engrossing chance encounters including serving as a crew member on an elegant riverboat, meeting Bill Cody, becoming an army scout and buffalo hunter, a traveling tent show performer, even a bodyguard in a brothel.
These youthful escapades shape him into “Doc” Noble, the spellbinding character we meet later in life in author Edward Farber’s earlier novel, Baron & Brannigan and reward you with a spirited tale of adventure along the way.
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Getting the Word(s) Out
Ed has been getting the words out for a long time starting with stories in a college literary magazine. He calls himself an eclectic writer whose early short stories covered a multitude of situations and characters. This new novel, The Rover, is set in the years just after the Civil War, and traces the early adventures of young Charles “Doc” Noble, one of the important characters in Ed’s earlier novel, Baron & Brannigan, Book 1.
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