Language of the Bear (Tomahawk & Saber, Book 1)
“In the hostile wilderness of Colonial America, a young Native American warrior and a British officer are forced into a secret assassination mission.”
The premise of Language of the Bear, the first volume in the “Tomahawk & Saber” series by the writing team of Evan Ronan and Nathanael Green, is as simple as it is irresistible. On the eve of the French and Indian War, a young British officer is forced by circumstances to team up with a young man of the beleaguered Susquehannock tribe in order to carry out a distasteful mission far from any kind of support and constantly endangered by the French forces stationed in force throughout colonial Pennsylvania.
I was intrigued by the many parallels in the lives and personalities of Lieutenant Hugh Pyke and young Wolf Tongue. Ronan and Green do an excellent job of vividly portraying not just their central odd-couple pairing but also everyone in their story’s large supporting cast, all the while keeping the plot percolating and the first-rate action sequences unfolding at regular intervals.
By the time this first adventure (in a very attractively packaged paperback) was over, I was eager to read another.
