Publisher's Synopsis
1800, Bethlem Hospital for the Insane. James Norris, an American Marine is without his ship and without his freedom. After a violent incident, Norris is moved to solitary confinement, his body chained to a stake for fourteen years, his mind shackled to its own tragedies; the commission he never took; the brother he lost; the friend he rescued but who then betrayed him; the lover who lied to him; the life that could have been his.
