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Napolean Childs and his brother Xenophon are career cavalrymen from a long family tradition of soldiering, a family of warriors. The year is 1916 in the deep wilds of Mexico. Napolean, Xenophon and their new recruits are preparing to hunt down Pancho Villa. Napolean is wise but feels mostly old and tired and he knows the minds of green soldiers keen for action and adventure. Some of these eager young recruits will be of a noble sense, some jumpy and tilted toward fast ruin, most of them lacking in experience with soldiering - a truly dismal and worrisome start for Napolean. He knows they will experience all that keen action and adventure and some will perhaps live to tell it. These raw, new soldiers are lead into a desperate showdown toward annihilation that Napolean can see too clearly and too late. This is Napolean’s story, his epic journey leading his men into certain slaughter and viewing his life as their lives are cut off and waiting for his own end. When you sit down to read this book, remove yourself from distraction, noise, bright lights and let the raw hard beauty of Olmstead’s writing weave a subtle twining rope around you, pulling you into the wildness of mean country and strong men’s hearts and souls. Marilyn S |
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