Iain Gale 
Keane’s Company 

Meet James Keane: loveable rogue and unlikely hero. ‘Wonderfully imaginative’ Bernard Cornwell, author of The Last Kingdom. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Bernard Cornwell.James Keane — card sharp and ladies’ man — is one of the finest soldiers of Wellington’s army. Keane — hot-tempered, a maverick, never quite accepted by his fellow officers — is in trouble for killing his man in a duel: an activity forbidden by Wellington. To avoid court martial, he takes on an unwelcome assignment: to form an ill-assorted bunch of reprobates into an elite unit capable of operating behind the lines. A nineteenth-century Dirty Dozen.