Charge! a Story of Briton and Boer
1900
South Africa, 1899. The Boer Republics hover on the edge of war with the British Empire, and for Val Moray, son of a British settler, the conflict is about to become terrifyingly personal. When the Irish agitator Moriarty arrives at the family farm with promises of Boer rebellion and recruitment, Val finds himself trapped between loyalty to his blood and the dangerous politics consuming the highveldt. Then comes the skirmish, the capture, the cage. What follows is a desperate flight through hostile territory, where every shadow might hide a sniper and every friendly face might betray him. Fenn, a master of Victorian adventure, builds tension like a slowly tightening spring, pitting young Val against Boer commandos, brutal landscape, and the crushing weight of choosing sides in a war that demands everything from those caught in its crossfire. This is adventure fiction at its old-school best: propulsive, morally complex, and steeped in the raw details of a conflict that reshaped southern Africa.
