DRIFTWOOD SPARS (Annotated)

Driftwood Spars is a work of imperial adventure fiction concerned with human wreckage: soldiers, wanderers, eccentrics, and romantic casualties cast up on the margins of empire. Its title is apt, for Wren shapes his material as episodes of flotsam—lives broken from their origins yet still bearing the marks of class, duty, and desire. Written in a vigorous, melodramatic, often sardonic style, the b...