Book description
1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King
Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the
brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can drown
England in a tide of blood.
The ravens of war are gathering. But as the king's closest advisors
scheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes of resisting the naked
ambition of the Norman duke come to rest with just one man: Hereward...
To some a brilliant warrior, to others a devil in human form,
Hereward is as adept in the art of slaughter as the enemies that
gather to claim England's throne. But in his country's hour of
greatest need, he has been declared an outlaw. To stay alive - and a
freeman - he must carve a bloody swathe from the frozen hills of
Northumbria to Flanders' fields and the fenlands of East Anglia.
The tale of a man whose deeds will become the stuff of legend, this
is also the story of two mis-matched allies: Hereward the man of war,
and Alric, a monk and a man of peace. One will risk everything to save
the land he loves, the other to save his friend's soul...
James Wilde
is a Man of Mercia. Raised in a world of books, the author studied
economic history at university before travelling the world in search of
adventure. Unable to forget a childhood encounter - in the pages of a
comic - with the great English warrior, Hereward, Wilde returned to the
haunted fenlands of Eastern England, Hereward's ancestral home, where he
became convinced that this legendary hero should be the subject of his
first novel. Wilde now indulges his love of history and the high life in
the home his family have owned for several generations in the heart of a
Mercian forest.
