Walls of Jericho

February, 1805. As Napoleon Bonaparte increases his stranglehold on Europe and a French invasion force is poised across the English Channel, in rural Gloucestershire two young men are thrown together by a near-fatal accident. Farrier’s apprentice Joshua Lock and the Honourable John Killen, heir to a Viscountcy, become unlikely friends through a shared passion for the horse, despite their gulf in station. With Britain recruiting desperately to expand her armed forces a future in the cavalry beckons both friends, for very different reasons. But when their regiment is posted abroad and disembarks in Portugal, a cavalry patrol searching for the French is caught in an ambush and Lock is lost. So as Sir Arthur Wellesley’s small British force marches to a confrontation with enemy troops at Vimeiro, can Killen survive without his only friend? And what happened to Lock?