WITH GREAT DISCRETION - Clayton, J. Hoolihan

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Résumé :
Charles Wolfe Collins is a veteran of the Civil War, an Irish immigrant, a reluctant Pinkerton operative and an independent agent frequently performing confidential investigations for powerful politicians in Washington D.C. In early 1879, he is summoned to the nation's capital by the Secretary of the Interior and requested to gather intelligence regarding the escape of the Northern Cheyenne from Indian Territory and subsequent military actions intended to recapture and punish the fugitives. Collins follows a heartbreaking trail of desperation, betrayals, bloody conflict and extraordinary courage, while the Northern Cheyenne strive to return to their homeland in the Powder River country in defiance of an unsympathetic government, willing to use any means to drive them back to a perilous and disease-ridden reservation. With the steadfast and capable guidance of a Lakota woman scout, Charles Collins must seek information amongst belligerent soldiers and civilians, as well as militant Northern Cheyenne people who have been hounded, ravaged and slaughtered beyond reckoning.?...

Biographie:
Juliana Hoolihan* Clayton is an indigenous woman of Turtle Island (First Nations Plains Cree/Nehiyawak) who was adopted by a white family and raised on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. She has lived and worked with Native Americans and cowboys throughout the West during her years as a ranch hand and wildland firefighter. With a degree in history and education from the University of Montana, it has long been her goal to create a series of entertaining novels that are rife with impeccable research, unflinching veracity and forthright cultural perspectives on American history. A member of Western Writers of America, J. Hoolihan has been published in western historical magazines, such as True West and Wild West. During her extensive research, J. Hoolihan continues to accumulate an abundance of topics for a succession of factual stories pertaining to the 19th century American West. Her first novel, Commendable Discretion, was published in January 2021. With Great Discretion is the second book of this series.* Throwing the hoolihan is a technique that old time cowboys used for roping horses. Hoolihan has been Juliana's nickname for decades