1. Soldier of the Queen
In 1877, Jack Roberts faces a choice between dangerous factory work and enlistment after his family loses its home. Raised on stories of the Crimean War and the Heavy Brigade, he enters the British Army with a romantic idea of the red coat that is quickly…
2. Redcoat’s Rifle
The British Army at the end of the nineteenth century was not a fair place. Despite the reforms, a bad officer could still ruin men’s lives and Jack Roberts discovers that despite being a hero of Rorke’s Drift, that means nothing when a superior has influence.…
3. Omdurman
Jack Roberts has spent much of his adult life serving abroad while his son is raised in England, creating a growing conflict between military duty and family responsibility. When Mahdist power expands in the Sudan, Jack is recalled to the desert regiment he helped form and…
4. Desert War
Jack Roberts returns from the Sudan with a crippling wound that appears to have ended his active military career. Instead he is sent to Iran on a mission connected with Britain’s search for secure oil supplies for its increasingly oil-dependent navy, drawing him into strategic competition…
5. An Officer and a Gentleman
Griff Roberts and the Desert Group find themselves the only British soldiers guarding a huge tract of Egyptian desert. When foreign powers begin to encroach on the land and to raid the caravans, it is up to the beleaguered garrison of Fort Farafra to do something…
6. For King and Country
September, 1905: Captain Roberts has returned to England, feeling uncertain of his future after the exploits of Fort Farafra. Recently married and on the cusp of fatherhood, he hopes to revert to a career with the regular army. Instead, his life takes a perilous turn when…