The King’s Beast

By Eliot Pattison

Duncan McCallum is back and has found himself the target of the people trying to keep America under British occupation in the sixth instalment of the Duncan McCallum Series. 

When Benjamin Franklin asks Duncan to retrieve some astonishing fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, he is blind to the murderers that are following his every step. Duncan soon realises that the fossils are far less of a mystery than the politics behind his mission. The Sons of Liberty are certain that the only way to keep the King from going to war with America is for Duncan to safely deliver the fossils to London. 

His quest soon becomes a web of treachery and fighting as he searches for a link between the fossils and the King. Every time Duncan comes close to answers he is met with fresh deceit from those obsessed with crushing any American rebellion. With every attempt to kill him, Duncan wonders what the ‘liberty’ that the Sons desire really means?

In order to survive his most difficult ordeal yet, he must rescue his native companion Conawago from bedlam and seek help from freed slaves, street thieves, an aristocratic maiden, and the tribal gods of his allies. 

The King’s Beast is a thrilling historical adventure from Edgar Award-winning author Eliot Pattison.