The Royalist
S.J. Deas "The Royalist"
Headline | English | September 25, 2014 | ISBN: 1472216989 | 320 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 3,1 mb
Headline | English | September 25, 2014 | ISBN: 1472216989 | 320 pages | azw, epub, lrf, mobi | 3,1 mb
It is 1645 and England is embroiled in a bitter and divisive Civil War. William Falkland former royalist cavalier is languishing in Newgate, awaiting what he assumes will be his execution. When he finds himself taken from his cell, hooded and shackled, he even welcomes his fate. However, he finds himself taken not to the scaffold, but to Oliver Cromwell himself. This is no normal conflict and Falkland is no normal prisoner. A man who disobeyed his king in the name of justice interests Cromwell, for he has a problem which requires a man of conscience…
Cromwell has created the New Model army to hopefully end the war. It is a new and revolutionary idea an army of men paid and fed to fight. However, while the New Model winters in the town of Crediton, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax, three young soldiers have committed suicide. Now Cromwell offers Falkland a chance at life if he investigates. Suddenly, Falkland finds that he wants to live and to find out whether his family are safe, so, along with his escort Henry Warbeck, he sets out across an England which is divided, plundered, cold and hungry, to find the truth.