Book description
1936. Soldier of fortune Cal Jardine travels to Barcelona to help
with the athletic games rivalling the Berlin Olympics. But as the
first shots of civil war ring out, friendship, love and political
conviction converge to persuade Jardine to once again embroil
himself in a foreign war.
Discovering that the British athletes attending the games are keen
to enlist for the fight, Jardine agrees to train them into a
professional force. With old army comrade Vince Castellano and his
beautiful interpreter Florencia Gardiola by his side, Jardine leads
the athletes through the street battles of Barcelona and onto the
fighting in the Catalan countryside but when murderous betrayal
blights his previous fortune, Jardine will go to any lengths to seek
suitable revenge...
Jack Ludlow is the pen-name of writer David Donachie, who was born
in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in history
- the Roman Republic, Medieval warfare, as well as the naval history
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - all of which he has drawn
on for the many historical adventure novels he has set in such
periods. A Broken Land is the second book in the Roads to War
trilogy. David lives in Deal with his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
