Blood of the Oak: A

Mystery of Revolutionary
America
 By
Eliot Pattison
Counterpoint
The year is 1765, at the beginning of the Stamp Tax dissent, the first
organized resistance to English rule. Duncan McCallum is drawn
into the mystery of a series of murders and kidnappings that are
strangely connected to the theft of an Iroquois artifact. In following
the trail, he uncovers a network of secret runners supporting the
nascent “committees of correspondence,” engaged in the first
organized political dissent across colonial borders. When he is
captured and thrown into slavery with the kidnapped runners,
Duncan encounters a powerful conspiracy of highly placed English
aristocrats who are bent on crushing all dissent. Inspired by an aged
Native American slave and new African friends, Duncan decides not
just to escape but to turn their own intrigue against the London
lords.

The fourth entry in the Bone Rattler series moves ever closer to the
beginning of the American Revolution. Included in the novel’s cast
of characters are figures who will have their destinies to fulfill in the
next decade: Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, the early
Pennsylvania rebel James Smith, and Dr. Benjamin Rush. Blood of
the Oak takes a fresh view on the birth of the new American nation,
suggesting that the “freedom” that became the centerpiece of the
Revolution was uniquely American, rising not only from
unprecedented political discourse but also from the extraordinary
bond with the natural world experienced by frontier settlers and
native tribes.
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