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NEW from Adept: a thirteen CD audio book of "MANSE: One Man's War" read by Dick Estell, host and narrator of NPR's "Radio Reader".

"MANSE: One Man's War" by South Carolina Author Wilton Earle was broadcast daily on NPR's Radio Reader during September 2005.

MANSE, cited by NPR as a "regional perennial seller that deserves national exposure," is based on the true story of Manson Sherrill Jolly who served in the Confederate Cavalry throughout the Civil War – but not until the war ended and he returned to his farm in the Anderson District of South Carolina did he become famous as a southern hero – and infamous as an outlaw.
The book is a Reconstruction Era saga of struggle and intrigue, corruption and brutality, love and honor – and one man's inexorable path from battlefield horror to trauma-induced madness.

Dick Estell, named by Audiofile Magazine as one of the best voices of the last twenty-five years, has defined the art of audio-book narration. His five-day-a-week NPR broadcasts have brought more than five hundred published books to public-radio listeners.