Without Redemption -- Sixth Novel of the Darmon Historical Mystery Series is Released

Sixth installment of the Darmon mystery series, Without Redemption is published by Black Rose Publishing and distributed by Ingram. The book is a sequel to the series: Message of the Pendant (Book 1), The Forth Contention (Book 2), The Patriote Proposition (Book 3) and Night Wind to Bahia (Book 4), Desperate Crossing (Book 5) -- see PRWEB January 5, 2006, January 11, 2005; February 5, 2004. Without Redemption (ISBN 9780982101261) is available through Ingram distributors, at Barnes & Noble, blackrosewriting.com or at the author's website: www.thomasthorpe.com.

Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2008 -- In the spring of 1846, William and Elizabeth Darmon receive a mysterious letter from a soldier dying on a Punjab battlefield. Soon after, a Sikh refugee arrives at London dock pursued by a Russian agent who kills the warrior and kidnaps Elizabeth. William trails them to India and confronts the predator high on Rakaposhi Mountain only to witness an invasion of Cossacks over the Himalayas enroute to join a rebel leader in Jammu.

Within the war-torn province the Darmons make their way back and learn of Russo-American agreement to eliminate British presence in North America by the sale of the Northwest Territories to finance an assault on the Crimea. The Darmons race across the Taklamakan desert. Afghanistan and Persia under pursuit of Cossack and Khiva warriors in an attempt to warn Abd al-Majid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

Author Thomas Thorpe was the Project Manager of NASA's highly successful Mars Global Surveyor Mission - a spacecraft that orbited Mars for nine years, having returned two hundred thousand images of the planet and relayed pictures from the Mars Rovers.

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