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Cross Of Fire (Paperback)
David Gilman; Narrated by Colin Mace
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WINTER, 1362
After decades of successful campaigning in France, Thomas Blackstone, once a common archer, has risen to become Edward III's Master of War.
But the title is as much a curse as a blessing. Success has brought few rewards: his family - bar his son Henry - is dead, slaughtered; his enemies only multiply. Death, in so many guises, beckons.
As he battles to enforce his King's claim to French territory, Blackstone will assault an impregnable fortress, he'll become embroiled in a feud between French aristocrats, he'll be forced into pitched battle in the dead of winter... and he'll be asked to pay an impossible price to protect something much more precious to the King than mere land.
All the while, out of the east, a group of trained killers, burning with vengeance, draw ever closer.
Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War takes to Spain in the
seventh instalment of David Gilman's gripping chronicle of the
Hundred Years' War. Winter, 1364. The King is dead. Defeated on the
field of Poitiers, Jean Le Bon, King of France, honoured his treaty
with England until his death. His son and heir, Charles V, has no
intention of doing the same. War is coming and the predators are
circling. Sir Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War, has
been tasked with securing Brittany for England. In the throes of
battle, he rescues a young boy, sole witness to the final living
breaths of the Queen of Castile. The secret the boy carries is a
spark deadly enough to ignite conflict on a new front - a front the
English cannot afford to fight on. So Blackstone is ordered south
to Castile, across the mountains to shepherd Don Pedro, King of
Castile, to safety. Accompanied only by a small detachment of his
men and a band of Moorish cavalrymen loyal to the king, every step
takes Blackstone further into uncertain territory, deeper into an
unyielding snare. For the Master of War, the shadow of death is
always present.
THE NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR Revenge is a
game you can't afford to lose... He turns the groaning Abbott over,
puts the barrel of the gun to the back of his head. 'We're doing
him a favour,' he says. 'I know a guy with a death-wish when I see
one.' He pulls the trigger. They say blood is thicker than water.
They never mention alcohol. Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott
has a lead on the killer of his dead brother, if only he can stay
off the booze long enough to hunt it down. But the skeletons in
Abbott's closet are mounting up faster than the bodies in their
bags, and Abbott needs to get his focus back if he's going to get
his revenge. His pursuit takes him to the North of England, where
Abbott infiltrates a local gang, forced to carry out jobs to
maintain his cover. As he gains their trust he ventures deeper into
the organisation uncovering a long-established international
network of rich, depraved thrill-seekers, with a sadistic
side-hustle in child trafficking. Can Abbott stay ahead of his
quarry and keep those who matter to him safe? The answer will take
Abbott into Eastern Europe and a deadly game of cat and mouse,
where he will face a terrible choice between his past and his
future; it's winner takes all and Abbott has everything to lose.
This audiobook is an mp3-CD edition Praise for the Alex Abbott
Series: 'Crisp, brisk and powerful' - Financial Times 'Enough to
put Bond and Bourne to shame' - The Sun 'Authentic and gritty' -
Heat Magazine 'An adrenaline-fuelled thriller with a flawed,
relatable hero' - Culturefly
Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under
a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living
as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted
by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but
there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad. That's about to
change. When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he
learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing in Iraq. Knowing
something is wrong, needing to find his son and desperate for
redemption, Abbott has no choice but to go back. Returning to
Baghdad, Abbott renews old acquaintances and begins his search for
Nathan. The body count rises as old wounds open and he struggles to
confront his demons, self-medicating the only way he knows how. But
when one of his old crew turns up dead in mysterious circumstances
and the link with Nathan is clear, Abbott begins to suspect a trap.
But who is the hunter? And who is the hunted? This audiobook is an
MP3-CD edition.
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