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Harry's Great Trek goes on sale at Amazon today, Friday February 20 on Kindle and in paperback. ALso vailable in various eBook formats at Smashwords

A year later than planned, the third in the Empire Trilogy is almost ready for publication (by mid-February).

Harry's Great Trek is not just a continuation of the stories in A Life Apart and Gregory's Story, it is more than that—it is a wraparound… and it is Harry’s own story.



The first four chapters may be read at: http://www.cityboiz.com/harrys-great-...

What do you do when the person you have loved in secret since your schooldays finds happiness with another, leaving your heart bereft and your future a bleak, lonely prospect?

For Harry Smythe-Vane, junior officer serving in the British army at the end of the failed campaign to rescue Gordon of Khartoum from the Mahdist siege of 1885, finding childhood friends Richard and Edward united in love spells the end of a dream he knows was doomed from the start—more so, a dream condemned by society at large: the love of two men for each other.

Harry must now pluck up the courage to pursue an uncertain quest for an elusive new soulmate—his great trek to attain fulfillment.

From dangerous missions on India’s wild North-West Frontier to the deserts of Sudan, Harry forges a career and experiences fleeting friendships, but when a spell of leave takes him to London his heart is struck. He meets his almost-forgotten godson Jolyon Langrish-Smith, a troubled teenager in Oscar Wilde’s louche circle. It’s an encounter that pitches Harry headlong on a turbulent journey of emotional involvement, of hurt and joy.

Painting a vivid panorama of the British Empire at its height, with its multi-faceted but rigid society hovering on the brink of change, Harry’s Great Trek is an epic saga of love and war—alive with an engaging cast of the humble and the famous, the honorable and the scoundrels—which climaxes in 1900 amid the carnage of the Boer War. There Harry’s future is decided as one quest ends and a new journey begins…

Harry’s Great Trek concludes the “Empire Trilogy” which also comprised of A Life Apart and Gregory’s Story.

I'm now on the very final working of the text and layouts for the paperback edition, which runs to 498 pages, or 182,000 words, including a glossary and 9 maps.

If everything remains on schedule ;-) the paperback and eBook editions should be published before the end of February 2015.

Harry's adventures in Afghanistan following his time in the Sudan with Richard and Edward Rainbow in A Life Apart, wandering the Pamir Mountains, the Karakorams, and the Hindu Kush with his faithful Persian servant Arshan, his battles at Malakand beside Winston S. Churchill, and the even tougher battle to win the heart of beautiful Jolyon Langrish-Smith (who appeared in Gregory's Story)… all this had to go on hold while I tackled two urgent commissions: Mississippi Hustler (really written by my good friend Rod Bellamy ;-) and Deadly Circus of Desire: Boys of Imperial Rome for Bruno Gmünder (the last due out any day).

But I'm back onto Harry's Great Trek, with just a few last chapters to complete, then a good read through, though much of the first 3/4 has been read over and again! Oliver Frey (a.k.a. ZackZack) has just delivered the fab cover, which fits in perfectly with the first two of the Empire Series.

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Now hard at work on Harry's Great Trek which is a companion to both A Life Apart and Gregory's Story.

A general description and the first chapter may be read at:

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for A Life Apart and for Gregory's Story

Download the prologue and first four chapters of the five-star reviewed Gregory's Story in .mobi (Kindle) and .ePub formats from Reckless Books

Gregory's Story is now published and available at Amazon for Kindle and paperback (which is a bit pricey, I know, but the maps look so much better in print than on an e-reader screen), and at Smashwords