Description

**“So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.”— *Los Angeles Times*** With the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bestseller, *The Alienist,* Caleb Carr tells the incredible story of Frederick Townsend Ward, the American mercenary who fought for the emperor of China in the Taiping rebellion, history’s bloodiest civil war. *The Devil Soldier* is a thrilling, masterfully researched biography of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees. **Praise for *The Devil Soldier*** “If ever a book of history were made for the movies, Caleb Carr’s *The Devil Soldier* is it.” * *—* Chicago Tribune * * * “Good, thorough, scholarly but absorbing.” **—Edward Rice, author of *Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton***