Rescuing Crockett - Pyke, David Z
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What if Davy Crockett survived the Alamo? The award-winning epic of historical western fiction that's an adventure, a mystery, a thriller, and a love story. "Presented with artful plausibility.... A thrilling historical drama, as engrossing as it is edifying." -Kirkus Reviews 1838. Silas Grant prepares for life with the girl of his dreams. The resourceful sixteen-year-old is learning the blacksmith trade from his father and frontier skills from Texas Revolution veterans. But when a portrait of David Crockett raises the possibility that the beloved folk hero didn't die two years earlier, Silas…mehr

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What if Davy Crockett survived the Alamo? The award-winning epic of historical western fiction that's an adventure, a mystery, a thriller, and a love story. "Presented with artful plausibility.... A thrilling historical drama, as engrossing as it is edifying." -Kirkus Reviews 1838. Silas Grant prepares for life with the girl of his dreams. The resourceful sixteen-year-old is learning the blacksmith trade from his father and frontier skills from Texas Revolution veterans. But when a portrait of David Crockett raises the possibility that the beloved folk hero didn't die two years earlier, Silas joins a quest for the truth. Exploring a world healing from the war, Silas and his fellow Texians investigate the accounts of Alamo survivors and pursue a witness to the battle's final moments. Their odyssey turns lethal as layers of the last stand's mystery peel away to expose a shocking secret. Will the revelation stun a nation or ignite a fatal showdown? Rescuing Crockett is the gripping debut of the Silas Grant series set in the turbulent years of the Republic of Texas. If you like historical fiction in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Steven Pressfield, high concept mystery thrillers in the tradition of Dan Brown, and westerns in the tradition of Larry McMurtry, Paulette Jiles, and Elmore Leonard, you'll love David Z. Pyke's tale of redemption. WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL FICTION COMPANY'S 2023 GOLD MEDAL FOR AMERICAN NOVELS "A remarkable historical novel.... all your senses are involved in the battles, the landscape, the emotions, and the intrigue.... The characters are well-fleshed out, as real as a Texas storm, and the propulsion of the storyline keeps one glued to the narrative until the very end." -The Historical Fiction Company "The story moves fast, despite Pyke's feel for immersive scenic detail and welcome commitment to historical plausibility." -BookLife by Publishers Weekly "The historical details are rich and textured.... These felt so real, and the written visuals are almost cinematic in scope." -Readers' Favorite
Autorenporträt
David Z. Pyke is a native Texan related to one of the Alamo defenders. His great-great-great-great-great-granduncle, Isaac Millsaps, was one of the Immortal 32, the reinforcements from Gonzales who answered William Barret Travis's call for help, rode to San Antonio, and died in the Alamo on March 6, 1836.Pyke began writing professionally in 1975 and has written for newspapers, magazines, and websites.In 1991, a mutual friend introduced David to Suzanne, an English literature teacher from Missouri. Their first date was on Friday the 13th. Suzanne later confessed that before that first date, she read some of David's stories to see if he could write. Apparently, he received a passing grade. They were engaged five months later, married four months after that, and in 2022 celebrated their 30th anniversary.