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|title=Keane's Company

|author=Iain Gale

|publisher=Heron Books

|date=January 2014

|summary=James Keane is a blessed man. Most soldiers accused of cheating at cards and killing an officer during a duel would have been thrown out of the army at best, hung at worst. However, Keane is given the task of creating a company out of a group of ne'er do wells and going behind enemy lines. A dangerous job that may just have made the gallows the better option.

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There is one fictionalised character that straddles recent historic fiction set during the Napoleonic Wars like a Colossus and that man is Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe. To take on this level of success is no easy task, but with Sharpe books no longer being released, there is room for a new man. Is that man James Keane, star of Iain Gale’s ‘Keane’s Company’? This is a book that forgoes some of the deeper literary elements in favour of action and thrills.