Book description
1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt,
waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive.
He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar
looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves,
pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent
for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having
used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that
take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from
Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of
the Roses to the fall of Constantinople. Christian Cameron is a writer
and military historian. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, where
he served as both an aviator and an intelligence officer. He lives in
Toronto where he is currently writing the next novel in the Tyrant
series while working on a Masters in Classics.
