Unto the Breach
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1761. 13 years before the outbreak of the American Revolution, a far greater global conflict, known later as "The 7 Years War," rages across Europe, Asia, the seven seas and the fledgling colonies of the New World. Into these dangerous times steps John Paul, a teenage boy who must learn all the lessons of life and seamanship on a fragile merchant vessel pitted against deadly French privateers and fierce Atlantic storms. But the fate of the brig Friendship may well be decided not by war, weather and waves but by the brooding secrets that bind the ship's officers together and set them against one another.
John Paul: Into the Breach is the harrowing first voyage of a 14-yr-old Scottish indentured servant who will one day become the father of the American navy. In Into the Breach, an untested youth must learn not only the rudimentary skills of a merchant sailor but also how to navigate manhood, chaos, and conspiracy. In these waters, even one false step can prove fatal.
The John Paul Jones Saga is intended for readers who want to enter into the life and times of the Revolutionary age without the distractions of overly crude language or graphic scenes of amoral behavior. While the years before the advance of Wesleyan-inspired social reforms were full of inhuman barbarity, modern readers need not be dragged through detailed expositions of the fruits of our fallen nature in pursuit of a good story or in order to understand the forces and leaders that made the eighteenth century a pivotal turning point in the history of freedom.
Historian and social scholar F. A. Schneider launches this series of historical novels with John Paul: Into the Breach, a dramatic story of danger, divided loyalty, and high seas adventure.
F. A. Schneider
Rick Schneider first started to write fiction as a high school student in Nebraska. He was admitted to the selective Fiction Section of Harvard's Freshman Composition Seminars in 1978. While at Harvard, Rick studied Russian Area Studies and fell in love with the literature of the great Russian writers and especially with the short stories of Anton Chekhov. After Harvard, Rick attended various fiction writing workshops while he worked as a campus chaplain at Harvard and later moved on to pick up a PhD and teach social history at several Russian universities in Moscow while working with the Christian Embassy there from 1993 through 2003. Rick is currently a Senior Fellow with the Rivendell Institute at Yale University. He and his wife Soozie live in Hamden, CT and have three children who all admit to loving historical fiction even though they grew up with many, many nightly readings from the great historical writers of the last several centuries. Rick has published various articles and essays in newspapers and journals (mostly in Russian). In 2008, while teaching in Moscow, Rick stumbled across some of the details of John Paul Jones' collision with Russian bureaucratic culture (and Prince Grigory Potyemkin) that ended Jones' career. Rick knew that he must bring all of his experience, passion and education to bear to tell the story of Jones' rise and fall. "John Paul: Into the Breach" is the first salvo of this effort.
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