02047cam a2200277 4500 422079839 TxAuBib 20200421120000.0 200320s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781640094352 HRD 26.00 1640094350 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib Pattison, Eliot. The King's Beast [BOOK] : a mystery of the American Revolution / Eliot Pattison. 1st hc ed. Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2020. 419 pages ; 24 cm. Duncan McCallum ; 6 "When Duncan McCallum is asked by Benjamin Franklin to retrieve an astonishing cache of fossils from the Kentucky wilderness, his excitement as a naturalist blinds him to his treacherous path. But as murderers stalk him Duncan discovers that the fossils of this American incognitum are not nearly as mysterious as the political intrigue driving his mission. The Sons of Liberty insist, without explaining why, that the only way to keep the king from pursuing a bloody war with America is for Duncan to secretly deliver the fossils to Franklin in London. His journey becomes a nightmare of deceit and violence as he seeks the cryptic link between the bones and the king. Every layer that Duncan peels away invites new treachery by those obsessed with crushing American dissent. With each attempt on his life, Duncan questions the meaning of the liberty he and the Sons seek. His last desperate hope for survival, and the rescue of his aged native friend Conawago-imprisoned in Bedlam-requires the help of freed slaves, an aristocratic maiden, a band of street urchins, and the gods of his tribal allies". 20200421. Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Fiction. United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Duncan McCallum ; 6.