Synopsis/blurb….
The True Tale of the
how Wanted Fugitives Sister Thomas Josephine of St. Louis, Missouri and Abraham
C. Muir made a Daring Escape from Capture and Raced for the Mexican Border.
NUNSLINGER IV finds
Sister Thomas Josephine and Abraham Muir friendless, penniless and on the wrong
side of the law in the backstreets of Sacramento. Their only option is to flee
for Mexico... with half the Union Army on their trail.
Episode 4 of Sister
Josephine’s adventures out West and another 50-odd pages of adventure, mishaps,
close shaves and pursuit.
Our adaptable Nun countenances a spot of B&E, in order
to disguise her appearance. (Might need a few decks of our rosary to get past
that one.) She’s somewhat embarrassed by wearing a dress for the first time in
……ooh ever. We get a bit of her back story and learn of her troubled past and
her brother, Christopher……abandonment and an orphanage, before that stealing to
survive.
Muir advises her….”We
cannot hold ourselves in debt to the people we were, Sister, "……”You’re the one
taught me that.”
The pair flee on a steamer, fooling the soldiers guarding
embarkation. Inevitably they get rumbled and make a hasty exit after causing a
distraction….man overboard!
Just when you think, the worst has passed……the calm after the
storm, etc - disaster strikes and we finish on another cliff-hanger.
Reading this on its own, or I guess any of them in
isolation, they probably aren't going to make an awful lot of sense. As a
sequential series – I’m loving them.
Holborn has stirred the pot here. Our
intrepid couple seem to be drawing ever closer…….could God have some
competition from Abraham for our Sister Josephine’s affections?
Maybe our ending has nipped that impure thought in the bud....
4 from 5
NETGALLEY-cum-LIBRARY BOOK
Stark Holborn whoever he or she is, has a website here and a presence on Twitter - @starkholborn
Glad you liked this one, Col. Sr. Josephine continues to interest me every time you post a Nunslinger review. I like it too that in this one, Holburn shares a little more of her backstory. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMargot cheers. You probably couldn't get too much out of this on it's own, but as an on-going unfolding saga, I'm enjoying each bite-sized chunk.
DeleteGlad you continue to like these ... there are ten altogether?
ReplyDeleteTracy, 12 total, I have read 5 now, but need to crack on and finish really.
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