There was a Breaker Morant. He was vigorous, handsome, a champion horseman and a popular balladist who came to grief in the Boer War where he was charged with the wilful murder of civilians. To this day, his guilt remains in doubt. Was this man of enterprise and imagination also a cold-blooded killer? Or was he a scapegoat? This was the Breaker as history records him. But this novel takes the bones of the historical records with the skills and license of the creative writer to create a man of flesh and blood, as well as the historical enigma.