Can't Catch Camillo: A South African War Novel

By Felipe Kirsten

The South African War, 1899.

Underdog farmer-warriors known as the Boers enlist a mysterious Italian man into their ranks, assuming that he is just another globetrotting adventurer. But Camillo Ricchiardi is highly skilled and on blood-stained African soil for a single reason: to settle his vendetta against Queen Victoria's perfidious Albion. 

When a grievous battle wound limits his mobility and gets him transferred to the Pretoria hospital for treatment, Camillo bonds with a beautiful young nurse and soon falls in love with her. But Camillo has been between conflicts for nearly a decade, and the comforts of his rifle are holding him back from connecting to most people on an emotional level. 

As his days of peak performance quickly fade and the British Army advances into the Transvaal Republic, Camillo faces a personal conflict that challenges his dangerous hunger for heightening stakes. Commanding an elite scouting legion of 200 Italians trained to bomb bridges and fight using novel guerrilla tactics, Camillo must either leave his life of war behind or die in the field when his ever-expendable luck inevitably runs out. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Felipe Kirsten
• Release date: Nov 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781990959042