A rogue becomes a hero during the American Revolutionary War
Wounded and on the run from the law during the American Revolution, Dandy Dan McCracken is rescued and nursed back to health by the lovely ward of Benedict Arnold’s procurement officer in Philadelphia. McCracken is enamored of the girl, but when her husband returns from the front he flees and falls in with a band of British spies. He switches sides once more as he discovers his conscience as a result of love and his actions—not through choice but circumstance—make him a hero.
Excerpt
I’ve long held the opinion heroes are made and not born. It has been my experience such was the case with those I met who were elevated to that status and I know with undue certainty it was so in my own case. I never once in my long life entertained ambition to become a hero and never expected fate would cast the opportunity before me. I still don’t consider myself a hero; it was purely an accident and one that, for the most part, I would have preferred to avoid.
Yet, the die was cast without my having a word to say about it.
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