Colonial Spy

Colonial Spy by Beckham, M. C.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781412062961.

This excellent and well written Revolutionary War novel, compared by one university professor to Cold Mountain and The Civil War for its quality and detail, is an engrossing story of a frontier settler, farmer and horse trainer turned scout and spy for the Americans. The rebel, Jack Beckham, is real. He lived and fought against British Regulars, as well as Tories, and is written about in three different carefully researched books by historians.Spanning the geography of the colony from his mountain home to the Atlantic Ocean this is great historical fiction to understand the ending chapters of the American war for independence. In this novel the American Revolution in the south is brought to such life and realism that you will spend enjoyable reading time from one chapter to the next, almost to the exclusion of whatever else you have to do.