The Elijah Hall Chronicles

"Call me Hall. And let this be the chart by which forgotten men are brought home."

In the storm-shadowed twilight of a revolutionary age, former seaman Elijah Hall visits the dying Captain John Paul Jones in a Parisian chamber thick with memory and regret. But this is no ordinary farewell.

Through firelit readings of Jones's private journals—and his own haunted recollections—Hall recounts the brutal truths behind the American naval war for independence. From the daring raid at Whitehaven to t...