Monday's Warriors Nz

What a fleck and what a fable! Frontier tales don't come much wilder and taller than Monday's Warriors. What makes it the more extraordinary is that most of it happens to be true. This is the rich and reverberant story of Kimball Bent of Sodom Docks (State of Maine, USA) who blundered into the British Army in the middle of the nineteenth century and was borne away to battle with godly rebel Maori in distant New Zealand. At the wrong end of one too many court martials, the flogged and confused Yankee deserts across battle lines on to the wrong side - the Maori side - to serve new friends faithfully as spy, armourer and marksman in possibly the most ferocious colonial war ever fought. Adopted as a grandson by the most robust and resourceful of warrior chiefs, the womanizing, one-eyed and terrible Titokowaru, Kimball finds himself fighting and mostly winning the American Revolution all over again in the misty rain forest and mountains of New Zealand's North Island. With one chance leap into legend, Kimball Bent was to become the most unlikely rebel ever to brave the firepower of the British Empire, but Titokowaru and his wild-riding, fierce and feuding lieutenants, the workaday warrio