In the hard winter of 1734 old Micah Clarke tells his grandchildren how, as a big, earnest son of a Cromwellian trooper, he set out from Havant to join the Duke of Monmouth’s rising. With his friend Reuben Lockarby and the mercenary soldier Decimus Saxon he meets a foppish London baronet, a stiff-legged parson and the ragged Protestant army of the West Country.
Conan Doyle’s first historical novel, rich in humour and battle, for admirers of The White Company and Stevenson’s adventures. Download the free EPUB.