There are very few let up in the story for you to take a breath and pause, you literally find yourself flipping to the next page then the next, just one more page, just one more chapter, and then suddenly …its 3am… how did that happen.

Once again James Aitcheson well and truly knocks the ball out of the park, his latest book Knights of the Hawk is an action packed thriller. His journey will take him from the marshes of East Anglia into the wild, storm-tossed seas of the north, as he ventures in pursuit not just of her, but also of vengeance. He seeks his love, Oswynn, once presumed dead but now believed to be held captive by a powerful Danish warlord. With morale in camp failing, and the prospect of victory seeming ever more distant, Tancred’s loyalty is put to the test as never before.įor his true path, he knows, lies in a different direction. Embittered by his dwindling fame and by the oath shackling him to his lord, he yearns for the chance to win back his reputation through spilling enemy blood.īut as the Normans’ attempts to assault the rebels’ island stronghold meet with failure, the king grows increasingly desperate. Once lauded for his exploits, he is now all but destitute. Tancred, a proud and ambitious knight, is among the Normans marching to crush them. Now, however, five years after the fateful Battle of Hastings, only a desperate band of rebels in the Fens stand between King William and absolute mastery of his kingdom.

The struggle for England has been long and brutal. Sworn Sword is his first novel.ĪUTUMN, 1071. James Aitcheson was born in Wiltshire and studied History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where began his fascination with the medieval period and the Norman Conquest in particular.

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