The spirit of the warrior lives in his deeds. England, 1346. The young stonemason Thomas Blackstone is faced with a choice: Either death by hanging - for a murder he did not commit. Or he joins the English army, for which King Edward is urgently seeking more archers. The decision is not difficult for him. But in Normandy, Thomas learns the bitter reality of war. Chivalry is a code for better times. There is no mercy - certainly not in the Battle of Crécy, the bloody cauldron of the Hundred Years' War ...
David Gilman, who grew up in Liverpool, was already driving construction workers through the African bush in a battered Ford at the age of 16. Various jobs all over the world followed: as a fireman, forestry worker and advertising photographer, as marketing manager of a publishing house and paratrooper in the British Army. Since 1986 he has devoted himself entirely to writing. He is a successful radio and screenwriter, and his children's and young adult novels have been sold in 15 countries. Today he lives in Devonshire and drives a stubborn old Landrover.
