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John Whyte, disgraced son of an English Lord, has quit the British Army and cometo America to join the Union cause. He is assigned to command of the 5thMichigan Cavalry under his former assistant, now Brigadier General GeorgeCuster. Whyte follows the dashing Custer into battle against the Confederatecavalry of JEB Stuart at Gettysburg, into the 1864 Valley Campaign, and iscaptured at the Battle of Cedar Creek. Incarcerated in the infamous Libby Prisonin Richmond, VA, Whyte is under a death sentence for his actions in breaking theRose Greenhow spy ring. If Custer's Cavalier is to survive the ordeal, it willtake all his courage and cunning.
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Thom was born in Missouri and raised around Ft Smith, Arkansas. He grew up watching local rodeos and admiring the bronc riders until he found out the hard way just how demanding that profession was. After an engineering degree, he joined the US Army and served as a green beret for thirty years, serving in Vietnam, South America, and Africa. In Vietnam he was a raider company commander for a cross-border operations unit. He retired from the Army in the late nineties as a Colonel and has been writing since. He is a graduate of the National Defense University and instructed at the Command and General Staff School. He has his MBA from Pepperdine University and is a Registered Engineer and a Enrolled Agent for the IRS. He skis, scuba dives and plays a fairly mean game of Golf. He and his wife Sandy live in Colorado, close to the ski slopes and the grandkids.
