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Gate of the Dead
by David Gilman
Book 3 in the Master of War series.
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Thomas Blackstone has made a dangerous name in Italy, where mercenary service among rival city-states gives him enemies as useful as his victories. A summons apparently from the English queen pulls him back across the Alps, through courtly obligation, trial by combat and popular violence in northern France.
The novel widens the Hundred Years’ War beyond the main English and French armies. Its 1358 setting brings together Italy’s mercenary culture, the French political crisis after Poitiers and the disorder that followed royal defeat and heavy taxation. Blackstone moves through a Europe where courts, roads and battlefields are all unsafe.
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