Devils Charge

Devils Charge, the second in The Civil War Chronicles, Michael Arnolds 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 Post England 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 Marias 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