Book description
Once seen in the heat of battle, Captain Stryker is never forgotten. A
hardened veteran of the wars in the Low Countries, he has come home to
England to seek revenge on the man who left him for dead and scarred him
for life. Stryker is driven by loyalty rather than conviction to serve
King Charles's cause. He has no truck with aristocracy, preferring the
company of a handful of trusted men, including sometime actor Lancelot
Forreseter and his foul-mouthed sergeant, Skellen. But when the
existence of a dangerous spy at the heart of the Royalist establishment
is discovered, it is Stryker whom Prince Rupert chooses to capture the
man before he realises the game is up. Lightly armed and with only a
handful of men, Stryker must journey across a country riven by
bitterness and beset by marauding bands of soldiers in a race against
time. But unbeknown to Stryker, someone else is also closing in on his
quarry, someone whom Stryker has sworn to kill: Captain Eli Makepeace,
his nemesis, the man who nearly destroyed him . . .
