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**Following her *New York Times* Editor’s Choice collection of short stories *Tales of the New World*, historical fiction master Sabina Murray returns with an epic and bold novel of friendship and betrayal set across four continents and a 40-year time span**In prose that is darkly humorous and alive with detail, *Valiant Gentlemen* reimagines the lives and intimate friendships of humanitarian and Irish patriot Roger Casement; his closest friend, Herbert Ward; and Ward’s extraordinary wife, the Argentinian-American heiress Sarita Sanford. *Valiant Gentlemen* takes the reader on an intimate journey, from Ward and Casement’s misadventurous youth in the Congo—where, among other things, they bore witness to an Irish whiskey heir’s taste for cannibalism—to Ward’s marriage to Sarita and their flourishing family life in France, to Casement’s covert homosexuality and enduring nomadic lifestyle floating between his work across the African continent and involvement in Irish politics. When World War I breaks out, Casement and Ward’s longstanding political differences finally come to a head and when Ward and his teenage sons leave to fight on the frontlines for England, Casement begins to work

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Author

Murray, Sabina

Publisher

Grove Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802125453

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.82 / 5 (127 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14