Sin Perdón

About the Book

While fire-eaters, both North & South, fanned controversial flames into open, armed hostilities, the political situation south of the 1860 US-Mexico border also quickly deteriorated.  Prior to opening shots at Fort Sumter, Liberal Republican President Benito Juárez wrested power away from the clerical Conservatives who had held the country in a oppressive grip since before Spain’s embarrassing evacuation.  Juárez’s election, and subsequent persecution, prompted affluent expatriate Conservatives to flee to Europe, where, as political refugees, they gained the sympathies of France’s Napoleón III.  Seeing the turmoil brewing in the US, Napoleón, backed by some of Europe’s most influential bankers, gambled and embarked on a mission of regaining a foot-hold on the western continent that had been lost since the publication of the US’s Monroe Doctrine.  This Napoleón accomplished by convincing Austria’s Archduke Maximilian in accepting the “Throne of Mexico,” which would be propped-up by French expeditionary forces.  However, when the devastating US turmoil concluded with the subjugation of the South, US Secretary of State, William Seward, issued a threatening ultimatum demanding Napoleón to withdraw French troops from Mexico, or face the consequences of war with the United States.  With the final French Foreign Legion embarking from the coastal port of Vera Cruz, it was only a matter of time before Maximilian realized his puppet government could not survive without exterior military support.  Convinced that forging peaceful, political alliances with the victorious North was his only formula for successful existence, Maximilian spurned the overtures of displaced, unrepentant southern generals offering their services.  Seward, however, rejected Maximilian’s proposals.  With his stunningly beautiful bride having returned to Europe to seek the reestablishment of withdrawn monetary and military support from governments and the Vatican, Maximilian made his last stand against converging loyal Juaristas at an old Spanish town north of the nation’s capital.

About the Author

Although Sin Perdón is the author’s first book to go to publication, there are about six works “waiting in the wings,” at various stages of completion.  All books, to include Sin Perdón, deal loosely with that most devastating, critical period in American History when over 600,000 men, women, and children perished in the multi-faceted conflict, many issues of which were never resolved and still haunt and plague our nation’s politics, today.  The author’s total civil war knowledge (from the public school system) could be summed-up in approximately three phrases: the South had slaves; the North didn’t like it; the North invaded the South and forced the issue (resulting in the freeing of 3 million enslaved people).  Equally, all the peripheral connections with the American conflict were virtually unknown.  It was only when the author attended the US Army’s Warrant Officer School in 1995, where he was required to conduct research about a contending general, that his appetite was insatiably whetted.  During the following years, all things “Civil War” became a consuming passion.  During his subsequent research, the author discovered the stunning “facts” about the European invasion of Mexico, during the same 1860 time-frame as our nation’s armed hostilities.  Sin Perdón is the author’s first installment portraying the events occurring “behind the scenes,” as vast armed forces senselessly slaughtered each other on battlefields across America.  The author has spent considerable time traveling in Mexico, is fluent in the Spanish language, thereby uniquely qualified in researching antiquated yet venerable original material.  During the author’s twenty-plus years in the military, many were spent writing military reports – hence the military “bent.”  The author holds a BA in Education and is currently pursuing his Masters.  He resides in Manassas, VA with his wife, two children, one son-in-law, and one grand-daughter.