Fiction · 1897
Soldiers of Fortune
Robert Clay runs an iron mine in a small, politically unstable Latin American republic, competent and unbothered by the local chaos right up until a revolution actually breaks out around his operation and the mine owner's visiting daughter — whom he's fallen for against his own better judgment — needs someone to get her out alive.
Davis published Soldiers of Fortune in 1897; it became one of his most popular novels and was adapted for both stage and film.
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1864–1916 · Victorian
Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) was born in Philadelphia and became the best-known American reporter of his generation, covering the Spanish-American War (where he joined the charge up San Juan Hill), the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War. His early fiction — including the Van Bibber stories and Gallegher and Other Stories (1891) — made him a celebrity in his twenties; Van Bibber and Others (1892), Soldiers of Fortune (1897) and several successful plays followed. He died at his home in Mount Kisco, New York.
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