Duncan Craig’s new book is an intelligent western set in the closing days of the frontier

LEICESTSHIRE, U.K. - May 22, 2013 - PRLog -- ‘I was inspired to write 5CAV after reading numerous biographies of General George A. Custer and studying the family correspondence of General Benjamin H. Grierson, Captain Albert Barnitz and others,’ says Duncan, who also used post and regimental records in his research. ‘The American West as represented in fiction too often reflects a stale cliche dating from the very earliest days of moving pictures. But the day-to-day life of an educated officer class serving in the frontier army, often with their families along, pretty much mirror the best and worst of our lives today; mundane, bureaucratic and engagingly human,’ says Duncan.

About the Book
5CAV charts a five day period in the lives of two army officers; the humanitarian Lnt. Coster and the careerist Mjr. Jenness. Arranging quarters for stranded train passengers, juggling the roster for Officer of the Day, balancing family life with a workload that falls inevitably on the same small cadre of hard-pressed officers. For Coster and Jenness, this is the reality of life in winter garrison. But with a Shoshoni chief agitating for a change of Indian Agent, a US Army Paymaster on a tour of northern posts  and the arrival at Fort Glenn of two men with a shared past, the ordered routine of winter quarters is gradually disfigured by violence and tragedy – leaving Jenness pursuing a bureaucratic lynching, and Coster offering a conflicted killer a last chance of redemption.

About the Author:
Duncan Craig was born in the UK, but raised in Australia. Returning to the UK, he served five years in the Territorial Army. He is inspired by writers such as Adam Hall.