Beyond the Frontier - Book Four

He served his country. His country turned away.

Book Four of the Freeman Legacy Saga.

Joseph Freeman crosses the widest water in the world in the hold of the transport Sheridan, learning on the way that the war he is going to will not be the war he already fought in Cuba. In the Philippines he meets the shadow of David Fagen, the soldier who changed sides, and the question that follows every Black man in uniform: what does this country owe the men who fight for it?

Home again with the 25th Infantry, he guards the country of the big trees and builds a road a wagon can roll on. He believes. And then comes the night of August 13, 1906, in Brownsville, Texas: shots in the dark, a town that blames the Black soldiers at its fort, a conspiracy of silence that is not theirs, and a President who discharges 167 men without honor and without a trial.

The first three books were about people who believed that if they only served well enough, the country would keep its word. This is the book where that faith meets the thing it was up against.

Twenty-eight chapters, from the long water to the one left to say it, with a historical afterword that separates fact from fiction.

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