Book details:
Book Title: Traitor’s Game
Series: Soldier Spy, Book #1
Author: Rosemary Hayes
Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Sharpe Books
Pages: 134
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1808.
Captain Will Fraser has just returned from the Front in the Peninsular War. He is disgraced and penniless, the victim of a conspiracy led by a jealous and influential officer. Fraser has been falsely accused of insubordination and cowardice and dismissed from his regiment.
Fraser and Duncan Armstrong, his wounded Sergeant, arrive in London to seek out Will’s brother, Jack, who works for King George’s Government.
But Jack has disappeared. He vanished from his lodgings a week ago and no one has seen him since. Friends and colleagues are baffled by his disappearance as is the young woman, Clara, who claims to be his wife.
Then Will is viciously attacked, seemingly mistaken for his brother, and only just escapes with his life. When news of this reaches Jack’s colleagues in Government, Will is recruited to find his brother and he and Armstrong set out to follow a trail littered with half-truths and misinformation.
For their task is not quite what it seems.
Will closely resembles his brother and it becomes evident that he is being used as a decoy to flush out Jack’s enemies. These are enemies of the State, for Jack Fraser is a spy and his colleagues believe he has uncovered evidence which will lead to the identity of a French spymaster embedded in the British Government.
Will’s search leads him to France but in this murky world of espionage, nothing is straightforward.
The soldier turned spy must unmask a traitor, before it's too late.
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Will Fraser, is the main character in the first of my ‘Soldier Spy’ novella’s ‘Traitor’s Game’. He has returned from fighting in the Peninsular War in disgrace, wrongly accused of insubordination and cowardice, and is desperate to clear his name. He comes to London to find his brother, Jack, only to discover that Jack has vanished. No one knows what has happened to him and, in order to try and track him down, Will reluctantly becomes involved in the murky world of espionage.
In what situation is your self-esteem most at risk?
Will’s self esteem has been shattered after being falsely accused
What are you keeping a secret?
Once Will has agreed to spy for the British Government, he has to keep everything secret and can only confide in his trusted ex-Sergeant, Duncan Armstrong
What are you lying to yourself about? To others?
Will is not admitting to himself that he is still hopelessly in love with his brother’s wife
What do you think he/she can do for you that no one else can?
Will strongly resembles his vanished brother, Jack, and can impersonate him
How do you decide if you can trust someone?
Will thinks he has an instinct about those he can trust. But this instinct lets him down
What are your goals in life?
Will has always wanted to serve his country as a soldier
What do you like best about your best friend?
Will’s most trusted friend is his wounded ex-Sergeant, Duncan Armstrong who he admires for his loyalty and courage
If you could change anything about your life what would it be?
Will wishes desperately that he had not been disgraced, through no fault of his own, and that he was still an officer.
Rosemary Hayes has written over fifty books for children and young adults. She writes in different genres, from edgy teenage fiction (The Mark), historical fiction (The Blue Eyed Aborigine and Forgotten Footprints), middle grade fantasy (Loose Connections, The Stonekeeper’s Child and Break Out) to chapter books for early readers and texts for picture books. Many of her books have won or been shortlisted for awards and several have been translated into different languages.
Rosemary has travelled widely but now lives in South Cambridgeshire. She has a background in publishing, having worked for Cambridge University Press before setting up her own company Anglia Young Books which she ran for some years. She has been a reader for a well-known authors’ advisory service and runs creative writing workshops for both children and adults.
Rosemary has now turned her hand to adult fiction and her historical novel ‘The King’s Command’ is about the terror and tragedy suffered by a French Huguenot family during the reign of Louis XIV.
And Traitor’s Game, the first book in the Soldier Spy trilogy, set during the Napoleonic Wars, has recently been published.
Author Links:
Website:www.rosemaryhayes.co.uk
Amazon Author Page:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosemary-Hayes/e/B00NAPAPZC
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