Devil's Charge the second in The Civil War Chronicles Michael Arnold's acclaimed series of historical thrillers sees battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker 'the Sharpe of the Civil War' fight for his honour. ' Stands in comparison with the best of Cornwell' Yorkshire Post England stands divided: king against Parliament town against country brother against brother. For Captain Stryker scarred hero of a dozen wars the rights & wrongs of the cause mean little. His loyalties are to his own small band of comrades
- & to Queen Henrietta Maria's beautiful & most deadly agent Lisette Gaillard. So when Prince Rupert entrusts him with a secret mission to discover what has happened to Lisette & the man she was protecting
- a man who could hold the key to Royalist victory
- nothing not false imprisonment for murder ambush a doomed siege or a lethal religious fanatic will stand in his way. A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year