Advance copies of The Smuggler’s Gambit circulating ahead of its March 20, 2015 release are garnering lots of good feedback so far.
Children’s Literature has written this review:
“With a seamless plot and vivid characters, this novel set in Port Beaufort, North Carolina in 1765, captivates the reader™s imagination. When seventeen-year-old Adam Fletcher chooses to recklessly defend his single mother™s reputation with his quick temper and fists, he is given two choices”jail or an apprenticeship. The delinquent™s only consolation is the hope that he will work under the flashy Richard Rasquelle, a local hero and a successful port merchant. Adam, however, lands in the care of the elder Emmanuel Rogers, a staid member of the coastal colony and only competitor of Rasquelle. It does not take long for Adam™s impetuousness to land him in a tangled web of spying, betrayal, and life-threatening danger. When Adam finally uncovers the true evil players and why his boss, Mr. Rogers, has landed in jail, he is being led away to a deserted coastal island by kidnappers. Readers will not be able to put down this historically accurate tale until they discover how Adam redeems himself and reveals the truth.”
BIBLIO: 2015, Seaport Publishing, ages 15 – 18, $14.95
REVIEWER: Krisan Murphy
FORMAT: Fiction
ISBN: 978-0-9863252-0-5