The Green Jackets: The 95th RiflesIn 1805, gamekeeper Marcus Bradbury’s future is a dead end until Thomas Plunket, a charismatic recruiter for the 95th Rifles, offers an escape. He promises a place in a revolutionary corps of "thinking soldiers" where skill, not birth, is what matters. Seduced, Marcus trades his old life for a Baker rifle and is plunged into the Napoleonic Wars.

Plunket becomes his saviour and dark mirror: a peerless marksman with a supernatural gift for killing. Marcus's baptism by fire in Buenos Aires is witnessing Plunket's brutal amorality, leaving him isolated with a terrible truth.

Their bond is forged in the hell of the 1808 retreat to Corunna. At Bembibre, they find hundreds of comrades dead-drunk. Plunket demands they abandon the men—a cold necessity that horrifies Marcus. Days later at Cacabelos, with the rearguard about to be shattered, Plunket performs an impossible, legendary feat: using an unorthodox supine position, he kills the French General Colbert at an extraordinary range, saving the army.

This shot makes Plunket a demigod, but Marcus witnesses the cost. The "perfect" kill haunts Plunket, catalyzing his descent into alcoholism. He is celebrated, court-martialed, and broken by the system that made him.

Marcus walks a different path. Promoted to Sergeant, his war becomes a struggle to lead and hold onto his soul through the carnage of Talavera and Salamanca. He finds his anchor in Tracy Morrison, a sutler's daughter, and in a defining act of mercy: at the height of Waterloo, he orders his men to spare a terrified French drummer boy in the slaughterhouse of Hougoumont.

Spanning from Buenos Aires to Waterloo, The Green Jackets is a gripping novel of survival and the search for humanity in a brutal war. It is the story of two men: one who became a legend but lost himself, and another who sought to be a soldier, and in the process, found a way to remain a man.