The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton Through Luzon
The year is 1899. America has just inherited an empire, and two brothers find themselves deep in the Luzon jungle, chasing a criminal whose shadow stretches across both the battlefield and the home front. Larry and Ben Russell are soldiers in General Lawton's campaign, navigating not only the trap-laced trails of Filipino resistance but the weight of their own blood ties and broken loyalties. When Ben, still recovering from a bullet wound, insists on rejoining his company, the brothers are drawn into a dangerous game where the line between enemy and ally blurs in the tropical heat. A figure named Braxton Bogg moves through the narrative like a whispered threat, connecting the chaos of war to something personal, something that demands the brothers answer for sins committed long before they ever shipped out. Stratemeyer, the architect of countless juvenile adventure series, crafts a story that Pulitzers wouldn't touch but history shouldn't forget: America's first major overseas war, told through the raw nerves of young men who signed up for glory and found something far more complicated. The jungle doesn't care about duty, about flag, about brothers. It only cares about what survives.
