Gilman, David Legenden des Krieges. Band 2: Der ehrlose König

Fight precedes mercy. Normandy, at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. Thomas Blackstone, knight of the English army, holds several towns in northern France for his king. Again and again he and his men attack from there, inflicting stinging defeats on the French king's followers. Thomas' reputation soon reaches Paris. King John devises a plan to eliminate his opponent. The man he sets upon Thomas has no scruples: the butcher Gilles de Marcy, who is as cunning as he is cruel. It is not long before the net tightens around Thomas Blackstone and his Norman allies ...

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David Gilman, raised in Liverpool, was already carting construction workers around the African bush in a battered Ford as a 16-year-old. Various jobs all over the world followed: as a fireman, forestry worker and advertising photographer, as marketing manager of a publishing house and paratrooper in the British Army. Since 1986 he has devoted himself entirely to writing. He is a successful radio and screenwriter, and his children's and young adult novels have been sold in 15 countries. Today he lives in Devonshire and drives a stubborn old Landrover.