The Fallon Blood

by Robert Jordan ; Robert Jordan

ISBN: 0312859732
ISBN-13: 9780312859732
Format: Hardcover

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In 1765, an Irishman makes his way to Charleston, South Carolina as an indentured servant. With luck and intelligence, Fallon rises into the rice-planting aristocracy of the Carolina Lowcountry. But the winds of war are rising, and in an agrarian society that is rapidly heading toward revolution, the planter must become a privateer.

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Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 1995
Size: 6.75 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.55 pounds

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Escaping brutal English overlords, 1760s Irishman Michael Fallon becomes an indentured servant to Charleston, South Carolina, merchant Thomas Carver, where his infatuation with Carver's sensual daughter Elizabeth causes life-changing complications.

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