Soldier of Fortune

by Edward Marston Book 1 in the Captain Rawson series.

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Europe, 1704. Captain Daniel Rawson serves in the allied army commanded by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, as the War of the Spanish Succession moves toward a decisive campaign. Rawson is entrusted with dangerous duties that require intelligence, rapid movement and reliable leadership while French forces and their allies manoeuvre across central Europe.

The campaign culminates at Blenheim, where Allied success is essential to preventing France and Bavaria from threatening Vienna. Rawson's military responsibilities are complicated by the hostility of General Salignac, who uses private agents to pursue him away from the battlefield. The novel combines personal danger with the logistical and political pressures of coalition warfare, where one officer's mission sits inside a campaign involving several armies and competing national interests.