Purgatory’s Shore
Purgatory’s Shore by Taylor Anderson, published by Penguin on August 23, 2022, is a 592-page work of fiction that immerses readers in a thrilling adventure set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War. The story follows a group of American soldiers who, while en route to join General Winfield Scott’s campaign, find themselves transported to a perilous alternate Earth. Here, they encounter a world filled with monstrous threats and must navigate their new reality without the unified command they had anticipated.
In this edition, readers will witness Major Lewis Cayce’s efforts to unite a disparate band of soldiers, including infantry, artillery, and dragoons, as they confront their fears and the challenges of their unfamiliar surroundings. With limited weaponry and a worldview that clashes with the hostile environment, the soldiers must forge alliances and redefine their purpose. Themes of military strategy and survival are woven throughout, as they strive to reshape their destiny and find hope in a world that seeks to eradicate them.
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On their way to fight in the Mexican-American War, a group of American soldiers are swept away to a strange and deadly alternate Earth in this thrilling new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.
The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young American soldiers are bound to join General Winfield Scott’s campaign against Santa Anna at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War. They never arrive.
Or rather . . . they arrive somewhere else.
The untried, idealistic soldiers are mostly replacements, really; a handful of infantry, artillery, dragoons, and a few mounted riflemen with no unified command. And they’ve been shipwrecked on a terrible, different Earth full of monsters and unimaginable enemies.
Major Lewis Cayce, late of the 3rd US “Flying” Artillery, must unite these men to face their fears and myriad threats, armed with little more than flintlock muskets, a few pieces of artillery, and a worldview that spiritually and culturally rebels against virtually everything they encounter. It will take extraordinary leadership and a cadre of equally extraordinary men and women to mold frightened troops into an effective force, make friends with other peoples the evil Holy Dominion would eradicate, and reshape their “manifest destiny” into a cause they can all believe in and fight for.
For only together will they have any hope of survival.
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