Find The Wind's Eye (Andrew Gunn Trilogy, Band 1) - Softcover

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Boston, 1854. The President has given his order. The law is clear. And Third Lieutenant Andrew Gunn of the United States Revenue Cutter Service is soon to discover that obeying it may cost him everything he desires.

Anthony Burns is a fugitive slave. He has been caught, tried, and ordered returned to Virginia — and Gunn's ship is the President's choice to carry him there. It is a lawful command, issued from the highest office in the land. Gunn is a military officer, sworn to uphold the law. His duty is not to question it.

But duty and conscience are not the same thing. And as Gunn stands watch over a prisoner whose only crime was reaching for freedom, the distance between those two things becomes impossible to ignore.

Set aboard a small vessel navigating the charged waters of a nation pulling itself apart, Find The Wind's Eye is the story of one principled man caught between the uniform he wears and the values that prompted him to wear it. Gunn does not grandstand. He does not rebel. He simply struggles — with honesty, with anguish, and with the slow, devastating recognition of his own complicity in a system not of his own making.

The sea offers no easy answers. Neither does history.

Based on the actual trial and extradition of Anthony Burns — one of the most incendiary historical events of the antebellum era — this is nautical fiction in the tradition of C. S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian, anchored in the real moral fracture of pre-Civil War America.

For readers who believe the best sea stories are ultimately about what happens inside a man, not just around him.

Book 1 of the Andrew Gunn Trilogy. Book 2, Hear The Wind's Voice, is available now.

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