Duncan's War: Crown & Covenant, Book 1

by Douglas Bond

Overview

Young Duncan M'Kethe finds himself caught in the web of Sir James Turner, the former Covenanter turned military leader of the persecutors. Duncan is torn by his hatred of Turner's dragoons, who have treated his friends cruelly, and his father's instructions to love them. He must be true to Jesus Christ while attempting to rescue his father from enemy hands.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875527420
Publisher:	Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Crown and Covenant Series , #1
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

About the Author

Douglas Bond, author of more than thirty books, is director of the Oxford Creative Writing Master Class, a two-time Grace Award book finalist, a hymn writer and editor, a speaker at conferences and churches in five continents, and a leader of church history tours in Europe.

Table of Contents

1.	Give Way, Ye Coward English!	1
2.	Fight or Die!	9
3.	Signing with Blood	24
4.	Rats!	34
5.	The Vicar's on Fire!	44
6.	The Devil Kicks up His Heels	54
7.	Underground Plans	60
8.	Sword Dancing	67
9.	London Burns	73
10.	Can't Fight Hate with Hate	81
11.	Shoot Him	90
12.	Sir Brodie	104
13.	Ye'll Hang, Sandy	109
14.	Through to the Hilt	113
15.	Duncan Uses His Head	123
16.	This Is No Playacting	131
17.	Primed Pistol	139
18.	Shoot the Monster!	147
19.	Chosen Few	151
20.	Duncan's Fall	161
21.	Betray and Live	166
22.	The Shoemaker	177
23.	Battle!	182
24.	Kill Him, or Free Him?	192
25.	I Smell the Devil!	195
26.	Friend or Foe?	201
27.	Not Much Time	210
28.	The Hanging Show	222
29.	Martyr's Bible	230
30.	The Smell of Fish	233
31.	Farewell, the World	237
32.	A Christmas Swim	243
33.	Haggis	252
34.	Though He Slay Me	257
35.	Angus Makes a Deal	262
	A Word about the Characters	271
	Glossary of Scottish Terms	273
	Timeline of Scottish Covenanting History	275
	Acknowledgments	277

Editorial Reviews

Children need Christian heroes and Doug Bond's splendid book meets that need. It draws from a genuinely heroic time in church history and tells a story that is rooted and grounded in the truth.

Rob Rayburn

Enjoy it; learn from it; and be grateful that free from tyranny we have a liberty under God.

A. Douglas Lamb

Here is the ideal book to curl up with on a rainy day, or to read on a dark winter night or on a long journey. Duncan's War will lift you out of today right into the seventeenth century and onto the wild moorlands of southern Scotland. It is a world inhabited by evil, danger, death, courage, and faith, where another red-head—a girl called Lindsey—crosses Duncan's path at just the right time. How Duncan's day-dreams become reality is a story not to be missed.

Sinclair Ferguson

nleashes the reader’simagination—a rip-roaring good yarn.

George Grant

Intrigue, Suspense, High-stakes drama. Duncan’s War educates and inspires us to look back at heroes of the faith in awe and forward to the return of the King in joy.

R.C. Sproul. Jr. Director

Intrigue, Suspense, High-stakes drama. Duncan’s War educates and inspires us to look back at heroes of the faith in awe and forward to the return of the King in joy.

R. C. Sproul. Jr. Director

Here is the ideal book to curl up with on a rainy day, or to read on a dark winter night or on a long journey. Duncan's War will lift you out of today right into the seventeenth century and onto the wild moorlands of southern Scotland. It is a world inhabited by evil, danger, death, courage, and faith, where another red-head—a girl called Lindsey—crosses Duncan's path at just the right time. How Duncan's day-dreams become reality is a story not to be missed.

Sinclair B Ferguson