The Rider in Khaki: A Novel
The story centers on Alan Chesney, a recently resigned officer whose friends debate his suitability for marriage as social life, racing, and country sport set the scene. Romantic tensions involving Evelyn Berkeley and Jane unfold alongside vivid Derby-day and steeplechase episodes, while a darker thread of espionage, a daring raid, capture, and escape introduces wartime peril. Personal disclosures, loyalties, and shifting alliances drive the action toward confrontations and revelations, blending sporting spectacle with suspense and emotional reckonings that resolve both romantic and military strains.
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The story centers on Alan Chesney, a recently resigned officer whose friends debate his suitability for marriage as social life, racing, and country sport set the scene. Romantic tensions involving Evelyn Berkeley and Jane unfold alongside vivid Derby-day and steeplechase episodes, while a darker thread of espionage, a daring raid, capture, and escape introduces wartime peril. Personal disclosures, loyalties, and shifting alliances drive the action toward confrontations and revelations, blending sporting spectacle with suspense and emotional reckonings that resolve both romantic and military strains.
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