![]() ![]() In battle he is a blinkered killing machine and there’s no mercy in him. Tancred is a complex creation by Aitcheson. The story of Sworn Sword is told to us by Tancred himself and it is a determined quest for money, land, honour and vengeance. ![]() ![]() It’s not long before Tancred realises that this is a fool’s errand, that he has become caught in a plot, and he must untangle it before York falls to the English. They must then deliver Aelfwold, Malet’s trusted English priest, to a nunnery in Wilton where he must present his message. With English rebels about to force their way into York, Malet gives the knights the mission of escorting his wife and daughter out of the city to safety in London. This first book has Tancred and his comrades ‘adopted’ by a new lord, Guillaume Malet of York. Sworn Sword is the debut novel of James Aitcheson and is the first in a series that will focus on Tancred a Dinant, a Norman knight who has sworn to avenge his lord, killed in Durham, three long years after the Battle of Hastings. ![]()
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