Title Details
An Act of Courage
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Author: Allan Mallinson
Narrator: Errick Graham
Genre: Thriller
Series: Matthew Hervey Series (7th)
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR1854
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7976 7
Duration: 13h 45m (approx.) on 12 CD(s)
Publication Date: April 2008
Price: £24.99
Synopsis
Christmas 1826 finds Matthew Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons alone and a prisoner. Captured by the Spanish, he is locked up in the notorious fortress of Badajoz, with little means of outside communication. He must escape, but as Hervey lays his plans his thoughts return to 1812, when as a young cornet he was with Wellington's Peninsular Army.
Having survived the terrible retreat to Corunna, Hervey and the Sixth had gone on to endure three more years of fighting - only to be stalled at Badajoz. But what Hervey cannot know, as he paces his prison cell fourteen years later, is that in Lisbon, his close friends - including the beautiful Isabella Delgado - are rushing to his aid. And the escape they plan is audacious in the extreme...
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