![]() ![]() ![]() Robyn Young, author of the Brethren Trilogy. Arnold's passion for the period suffuses every page." "You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire as you're thrust into the mud and blood of the battlefields. “Captures the grittiness, as well as the doomed glamour, of the Royalist cause.”Ĭharles Spencer, author of ' Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier' Stryker has few allies, and much to prove. But life as part of a regiment of mercenaries is hard and cruel, while the brutal war destroying mainland Europe has shown him horrors he never thought possible. Patrick Mercer, author of 'To Do and Die' and 'Dust and Steel'. It is the autumn of 1630, and Innocent Stryker has completed his first year as a soldier. Not only that, he's writing in a period that he obviously knows intimately and in to which he has breathed new life." "Mike Arnold has caught all of the passion, urgency, fear and exhilaration of men in battle. ![]() Rollicking action and proper history combine in this cracking series.'Īnthony Riches, author of the bestselling “Empire” series. ![]() ‘Mike Arnold hooks the reader with the clash of steel and the roar of gunpowder. “Intelligent plotting, historical accuracy, heart- pounding battle scenes and a memorable cast of characters are the hallmarks of Arnold’s remarkable series.Ĭaptain Stryker, we are promised, will return… “ ‘Arnold writes with such muscular flair the characters stride off the pages.’ “Arnold is good on the period setting of the Civil War, but he is excellent on the fighting. ![]()
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