The Great Shadow

A Novel of the Forbes Road

De: Kevin Grote

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

THE MOUNTAIN IS INDIFFERENT. THE EMPIRE IS RELENTLESS.
1758. The Ohio Country is a furnace of shifting alliances and brutal warfare. To the west, the French "Star," Fort Duquesne, sits like a crown upon the rivers, guarded by the fiercest warriors of the Seneca and Delaware. To the east, the British Empire is bleeding. After the humiliating slaughter of General Braddock, the wilderness has become a graveyard for European ambition.
Enter Brigadier General John Forbes, a man dying in a litter, driven by a cold, mathematical fury. He will not follow the old, blood-soaked paths. Instead, he will do the impossible: he will carve a brand-new road through the vertical stone of the Alleghenies.
THE SURVEYOR: Isaac Pemberton, a Quaker man of science, believes that logic and geometry can conquer any wilderness.
THE RANGER: Alistair Thorne, a cynical Virginian scout, knows that the woods don't care about ledgers—only blood.
THE MISSIONARY: Christian Frederick Post, a man of peace walking into the lion’s den, armed with nothing but a Bible and a promise.
As the "Iron Head" General pushes his army of Highlanders and Provincials deeper into the "Great Shadow," the boundaries between ally and enemy begin to blur. From the frozen mud of Loyalhanna to the haunting skirl of bagpipes on a hill of death, The Great Shadow is a sweeping epic of engineering, betrayal, and the high cost of a road that changed the map of the world forever.