Bücher der Reihe Flintlock.

The Revolutionary War is over and the fledgling United States is struggling to survive. With the turn of a new century, settlers are poised to continue their westward move through the dark and bloody killing grounds of Kentucky. In their path stand the British military's might and an even more menacing foe-the brave and brilliant Shawnee war leader, Tecumseh. Now the War of 1812 is about to break out, and the future of the new republic rests in the hands of American heroes like "Mad" Anthony Wayne, William Henry Harrison, the trigger fingers of a buckskin-clad army of undaunted conscripts, and in the courage, daring and determination of frontiersman Nathaniel "Flintlock" Jones. History is to be made, a wilderness to be won, and a spellbinding saga of the early American frontier is to be brought to pulse-pounding, unforgettable life.THE BORDER CAPTAINS IS THE SECOND EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE FLINTLOCK TRILOGY BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HIGH COUNTRY SERIES.

A FRONTIER HERO FIRES THE OPENING SALVO OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION... Drummed out of West Point, Christopher Groves goes home to Kentucky in disgrace, only to walk right into a feud with the murderous Vickers brothers. Now wanted by the law, Christopher heads for Texas, where American emigrants are chafing under the yoke of Mexican rule and are poised to fight for their independence. Flintlock Jones is an old man now, but Christopher is kin and he won't let his grandson make the long and perilous trek alone. Together, the two men get more action that they'd bargained for, running afoul of kidnappers, river pirates and bounty hunters. But that's nothing compared to the full-blown war that erupts between Texicans and their Mexican overlords, a war in which the legendary Flintlock Jones strikes one last blow for liberty.THE FINAL EXCITING ENTRY IN THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY THAT BRINGS THE COURAGE AND CONFLICT OF THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER TO LIFE, WHICH BEGAN WITH FLINTLOCK AND THE BORDER CAPTAINS.

In 1806 the ambitious and charismatic Aaron Burr is plotting treason against the young American republic. He devises a scandalous plan to carve out his own private empire by detaching the western states from the Union.President Thomas Jefferson suspects Burr but needs evidence. Surrounded by political enemies, he turns to Flintlock Jones, a young but already famous Kentucky frontiersman. Enlisting the aid of a young naval officer, Lieutenant Jonathan Grove, Flintlock embarks on a perilous mission of epic proportions as he pursues Burr and the man's army of ruffians across the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky and down the deadly Natchez Trace.But before Flintlock and Groves can stop Burr, the frontiersman is confronted by a ghost from his past, who has his own very personal mission: to kill Flintlock Jones.AN UNFORGETTABLE NOVEL OF HIGH ADVENTURE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE UNITED STATES, WRITTEN BY THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HIGH COUNTRY NOVELS.