Soldiers of Fortune

By Davis, Richard Harding

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Title:	Soldiers of Fortune
Author:	Davis, Richard Harding
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Romance, Drama.
Collections:	Romance Language Literature Collection
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Publisher:	1897


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Description: A romance of America's nascent imperial power recounting the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans visiting the mine into a counter-coup force. Written on the eve of the Spanish-American War, Soldiers of Fortune casts the young American as the dashing, hypermasculine hero of the new military and economic imperium.