Valiant Gentlemen

In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herber ...

In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, Valiant Gentlemen reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward''s extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford.Valiant Gentlemen takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement''s misadventurous youth in the Congo - where, among other things, they bore witness to an Irish whiskey heir''s taste for cannibalism - to Ward''s marriage to Sarita and their flourishing family life in France, to Casement''s covert h