Cross of fire /
by Gilman, David (Fiction writer) [author.].
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BookSeries: Master of war series: VI.Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2020Description: 464 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781788544948 (hbk.) :.Classification number: Subject(s): Blackstone, Thomas (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- Edward III, 1327-1377 -- Fiction | Historical fiction | Historical | Historical | HISTSummary: Winter, 1362. After years of successful campaigning in France, Thomas Blackstone, a common archer knighted at Crecy, has rised to become Edward III's Master of War. But the title is as much a curse as a blessing. Success has brought few rewards: his family - bar his son Henry - are dead, slaughtered; his enemies only multiply. Death, in so many guises, beckons. As he battles to enforce his King's claim to France's lands, Blackstone will assault an impregnable fortress, he'll become embroiled in a feud between French aristocrats, he'll be forced into pitched battle in the dead of winter, and he'll be asked to pay an impossible price to protect something much more precious to the King than mere land. All the while, a group of trained killers, burning with vengeance, draw ever-closer.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 29/10/2024 | 003036075X | |||
| Book - Adult Hardback | Southport Library | Adult Fiction | Available | 003036076X |
Winter, 1362. After years of successful campaigning in France, Thomas Blackstone, a common archer knighted at Crecy, has rised to become Edward III's Master of War. But the title is as much a curse as a blessing. Success has brought few rewards: his family - bar his son Henry - are dead, slaughtered; his enemies only multiply. Death, in so many guises, beckons. As he battles to enforce his King's claim to France's lands, Blackstone will assault an impregnable fortress, he'll become embroiled in a feud between French aristocrats, he'll be forced into pitched battle in the dead of winter, and he'll be asked to pay an impossible price to protect something much more precious to the King than mere land. All the while, a group of trained killers, burning with vengeance, draw ever-closer.
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