A Farm Boy Is Turned into a Murderous Sharpshooter in Where Eagles Dare Not Perch

Where Eagles Dare Not Perch is a historical fiction in the strain of Cormac McCarthy. When Union sharpshooter Zachary Webster kills Jonathan Stiller, Jonathan’s brother Jedediah goes on the hunt to avenge his brother’s murder. Webster's sweetheart, Catherine Bradford, takes off on her own journey in an attempt to stop the violent confrontation between the two men. The novel then follows Zachary, Jedediah, and Catherine as they attempt to survive and escape the consequences of the Civil War.

Zachary Webster was an innocent Maine farm boy before becoming a sharpshooter, but the violence of the Civil War battlefields has turned him into a natural killer. While home on his unit’s month-long furlough, he murders the man he believes has stolen his beloved. In doing so, he sets into motion three intensely dark journeys—his own as a soldier returning to a brutal and hopeless war; his sweetheart’s as she seeks absolution; and the brother of the murdered man, whose quest for revenge propels him into the most violent of worlds. When the three find each other amid the chaos and brutality of the Battle of the Wilderness, they’re faced with figuring out if they are tempered enough from their own redemptive ordeals to face whatever uncertain future awaits them after the bloody fighting is over.

Peter “Bridge” Bridgford lives on an island off the Maine coast with his wife, their two daughters, and a dog named Twilight. When he’s not writing, he’s taking people out for charters on his lobsterboat.

“A remarkable Civil War tale about Northern characters fighting for their own freedom as they seek revenge.” –KIRKUS REVIEWS

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