TRAITOR’S GATE
by Alexander Kulcsar and David Chacko
Here’s the set-up:
TRAITOR’S GATE is the complete story of the man whose life has been called “the strangest ever made known.” Israel Potter was a young man who set off to war, fighting his way through the epic Battle of Bunker Hill, until he came to his crossroads at sea, where his ship was captured by the British and all her people taken to England.
The next forty years of Israel Potter’s life, strangely enough, pass in England, where he was stranded by the vagaries of war. Or not. There is another vector to this story that David Chacko and Alexander Kulcsar follow to its exciting and logical conclusion. Take this trip, which is also one of the strangest stories ever made known, though it’s much different than the original. London, Paris, New York, the war, the love, the treachery and the action are portrayed in a way that has never been seen before in this in this period, which was the most vital, lusty and violent in American history.
Most Helpful Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars Israel Potter Lives! April 2, 2013
By Genevieve Gertrude
This wonderful book brings the pieces of the Israel Potter story, both historical and imagined, together. I have read them separately in Chacko and Kulcsar’s other books and have been fascinated by the events and possibilities; here all is deftly woven together in a tale that feels so real it MUST all be true. The story line moves forward with the urgency and wit I’ve seen in Chacko’s other spy/suspense stories as well, and the characters are well drawn, engaging, and alive. Perhaps most satisfying for me, as a professor of writing and literature, is the richness of the language: in clarity and energy it is modern English; its vocabulary is modern but draws on delightful older forms; its tones and rhythms convey the 18th century without imitating it. I also appreciate the Melville references. I said above that the characters are alive; more accurately, the book is alive. Get it. Read it.
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