DEFIANT UNTO DEATH PB – DAVID GILMAN

Like a punch from a mailed fist, MASTER OF WAR gives a true taste of the Hundred Years War. It is a gripping chronicle of pitched battle, treachery and cruelty. The stench and harshness of medieval life is ever present ROBERT FABBRI, bestselling author of the Vespasian series. FRANCE: 1356. Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crecy. Archer Thomas Blackstone stood his ground and left that squalid field a knight. He has since carved out a small fiefdom in northern France, but the woulds of war still bleed and a traitor has given the King of France the means to destroy the English knight and his family. As the traitor s net tightens, so the French King s army draws in. Blackstone will stand and fight. He will defy his friends, his family and his king. He may yet defy death, but he can t defy his destiny: MASTER OF WAR.