Capture The Cause

Now in his early forties and having believed he was finished with diplomacy, in 1808 New York lawyer and merchant Robert Rutherford is sent to Europe once more - this time at the request of President Thomas Jefferson.

Obliged to leave his wife and children behind, on the other side of the Atlantic he finds the still militarily weak United States of America caught diplomatically, and himself sometimes even personally, between the warring British and Napoleonic French empires, both of which are also more and more antagonistic toward the determinedly neutral U.S.

Amidst all of that, horrifying family news reaches him and Robert decides all that may be left to him is possibly never to return home...

R. J. Nello is author of CONVENTIONS: THE GARDEN AT PARIS and TOMORROW THE GRACE, the first two volumes of a sweeping historical drama set in Europe and America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. CAPTURE THE CAUSE continues that tale.