Brave Enemies

With tremendous narrative pace, a meticulous eye for colorful detail, and a tight grasp of historical setting and military action, poet and novelist Morgan delivers a rousing and affecting tale of the American Revolution. [A] gripping story of love and desperation.

Morgan provides the finest fictional recreation of the horrific war in the Southern theatre of the War for Independence that have ever read. His version of the Battle of Cowpens is a tour do force.

One of the rarest of Robert Morgan's gifts is his ability to embody the minds and voices of strong women. In <em>Brave Enemies</em>, he brings us Josie Summers, a young woman of rich feeling who is forced to assume male identity. Her character is Morgan's richest yet, and her story is steadily compelling.

At their finest, his stripped-down and almost primitive sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs.

Reminiscent of James Dickey- bearing the same naturalistic marks of clear, clean prose and often disturbing imagery... Morgan casts a stark story peopled with real, believable, and honest characters.