Warlord

Name: Warlord
Brand: Hachette UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Angus Donald
ISBN: 9781405526593

Author: Angus Donald

Series: Outlaw Chronicles #4

Narrator: Mike Rogers

Unabridged: 14 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Published: 05/09/2013

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

May 1194. Finally released from captivity, Richard the Lionheart is in Normandy engaged in a bloody war to drive the French out of his continental patrimony. Using the brutal tactics of medieval warfare - siege, savagery and scorched earth - the Lionheart is gradually pushing back the forces of King Philip of France. By his side in this epic struggle are Robert, Earl of Locksley, better known as the erstwhile outlaw Robin Hood, and Sir Alan Dale, his loyal friend, and a musician and warrior of great skill and renown.

But while the battles rage and the bodies pile up, Robin seems only to be interested in making a profit from the devastation of war, while Alan is preoccupied with discovering the identity the man who ordered his father's death ten years earlier - and the mystery is leading him towards to Paris, deep in the heart of the enemy's territory ...

About Angus Donald

Angus Donald was born in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. He has worked as a fruit-picker in Greece, a waiter in New York and as an anthropologist studying magic and witchcraft in Indonesia. For twenty years, he was a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London. He is married to Mary, with whom he has two children, and he now writes full time from home in Tonbridge, Kent.

Reviews

Goodreads review by S.J.A.

I found that Warlord followed the trend in Angus’ series in that THERE IS NO TREND. Honestly, one thing you can really count on with the Outlaw books is that any new title will have a new story, a fresh angle and a different feel and theme to it. There is nothing formulaic or repetitive about the se......more

Goodreads review by Mr. Matt

Warlord continues the saga of Alan Dale from just about where King's Man leaves the story. Alan is in France, serving King Richard III in the seemingly never ending brutal wars against the French. I struggle with how to evaluate this book. There is much to like. The history buff in me very much appre......more

Goodreads review by Robin

Review When i first started this series it was with a touch of eagerness, and a fair bit of trepidation. Robin Hood has always been a personal favourite of mine (i do share the name after all). I have read quite a few failed attempts at writing this great character, and seen some blooming awful films......more