The sixth and final installment in this acclaimed series about the start of the American Revolution. Sparrowhawk Book VI: War, which concludes the series, opens in the spring of 1774 and ends explosively on the York River in Virginia in September of 1775. Jack Frake is now the captain of an independent company of militia; Hugh Kenrick is a burgess witnessing the twilight of the colonial legislature in Williamsburg. The whirlwind of colonial resistance to Crown tyranny begins in front of an enigmatic marble statue and leads to the bloody slopes of Breed's Hill near Boston. Jack sends Et?in to Scotland for her own safety, while Reverdy and Hugh clash over their true loyalties. The residents of Caxton are in conflict, too, as Jared Turley, the bastard son of Hugh's uncle, is in Virginia and manipulates men and events to exact the Earl's vengeance on Hugh. And the Sparrowhawk plays a key role in concluding the chosen destinies of the heroes.