{"product_id":"gideons-revolution-9781501771514","title":"Gideon's Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's 1780, days after Benedict Arnold flees to the British when his treasonous plot to surrender the American fort at West Point is discovered and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGideon's Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is about to begin. \u003c\/b\u003eGeneral George Washington orders a secret mission for two Continental Army soldiers to go behind enemy lines, abduct Arnold, and return him to his countrymen to be tried and hanged. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWashington selects one of the soldiers, Gideon Wheatley, for the mission because Arnold would trust him. Wheatley fought under Arnold's command at Saratoga and tended to the gravely wounded general for several months at Albany's military hospital. After feigning desertion to the British Army to join Arnold's corps of loyalists, Wheatley and his comrade John Champe seek out Washington's spies in New York and develop a plan to seize the traitor. But when the abduction is foiled, the soldiers are trapped by their own deceit and forced to fight alongside Arnold's raiding army, as if they were traitors themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYears after the war, pressed by memories that haunt him and seeking redemption, Wheatley must decide whether he alone can exact revenge on his former friend and commander, a decision that sends him across the Atlantic to London to find and confront Arnold. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGideon's Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is an American origin story based on real historical events, an odyssey that reveals the profound human tensions between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, revenge and the possibility of forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Carso, a lawyer and historian, has studied the American Revolution and the life of Benedict Arnold for more than two decades. \u003ci\u003eGideon's Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. A reading group guide is available at briancarso.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Three Hills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509126926610,"sku":"9781501771514","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_236f6d39-26f5-4940-894a-ab1e9bbf768f.jpg?v=1730889057","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gideons-revolution-9781501771514","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}