Devil'S Charge Av Michael Arnold

Devil''s Charge, the second in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnold''s acclaimed series of historical thrillers, sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker, ''the Sharpe of the Civil War'', fight for his honour. ''Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell'' Yorkshire PostEngland stands divided: king against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother. For Captain Stryker, scarred hero of a dozen wars, the rights and wrongs of the cause mean little. His loyalties are to his own small band of comrades - and to Queen Henrietta Maria''s beautiful and most deadly agent, Lisette Gaillard. So when Prince Rupert entrusts him with a secret mission to discover what has happened to Lisette and the man she was protecting - a man who could hold the key to Royalist victory - nothing, not false imprisonment for murder, ambush, a doomed siege or a lethal religious fanatic will stand in his way.A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year