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- under the merciless sun of the east a dark force has risen
- a Norman adventurer who could rival the feared King William for bloody ambition He has conquered his land he has built his fortress & he has amassed his army & now he has taken Constantinople's ruler as his prisoner It falls to Hereward to rescue this precious captive For this great English warrior-in-exile & his spear-brothers it will mean mounting a raid that could prove the most dangerous & deadliest of their lives Assisting them in their task will be an elite & legendary band of fighters the Immortals
- so-called because they believe they cannot die in battle But it will not be enough
- for enemies hide within the jewelled heart of Byzantium vipers who spread their poison who want to see the English dead at any cost & who are to transform a mission that was at best dangerous into an adventure that is now suicidal With this rousing adventure full of brutal sword play treachery camaraderie & honour James Wilde continues his bestselling account of the action-packed life & times of England's great & now thanks to his his fiction perhaps not-so-forgotten hero
- Hereward the Wake