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    The Fencing Master
    The Fencing Master
    The Fencing Master
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    The Fencing Master

    By Byron Gordon

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    Benedict Weathersbee is content in his self-imposed exile. His fencing academy, with its WASP-ish clientele, provides an adequate income to satisfy his needs, if not his social station. It is enough to keep a man until Queen and Country should require his services again.

    But Benedict is a man with a past – not all of it a cup of Earl Gray – and there are some who would see him dead for his sins, imagined or real. Which begs the question who is Benedict Weathersbee, really? A dispossessed British noble, with impeccable manners and a classic sense of style? Or a monster hiding behind a mask?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherByron Gordon
    Release dateOct 28, 2016
    ISBN9781370836307
    The Fencing Master
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    Byron Gordon

    Byron Gordon grew up in the rural Eastern Shore of Maryland, USA. One of six children, he soon discovered his love of reading, ranging from the clever humor of P.G. Wodehouse to the epic fantasy of Tolkien to the fast paced science fiction of Timothy Zahn. Fed on this widely varied diet, his imagination blossomed and he began to write, desiring to create worlds and adventures of his own.After realizing the bleak financial prospects of an aspiring writer trying to break into the fiction realm, Byron enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. He spent an extra week in Coast Guard Boot Camp (Cape May, NJ) for writing during the breaks between classes. After Boot Camp he traveled to California for training in radio communications. Following the completion of his training, he spent three years on a Coast Guard Cutter, interdicting and repatriating illegal migrants. He currently is still on active duty and plans search and rescue efforts on the east coast of the USA.Despite the intense, and often hectic, schedule that military life entails, Byron has continued to write in his free time. While writing a complete novel still proves elusive, he has composed multiple short stories and a small amount of poetry. In the spring of 2011, he started publishing his writings electronically and now has a fair number of short stories and poetry available online in a variety of formats.

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