Blood's Revolution: Would you fight for your king - or fight for your friends?

Angus Donald

Oct 2018 · Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

About this ebook

Mixing the fascinating and bloody events of the Stuart reign with thrilling historical fiction, the new series from bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles, Angus Donald, is perfect for fans of Conn Iggulden, James Forrester, S. J. Parris and The Favourite.

In an age of treachery everyone must pick a side . . .

It's 1685 and after the victory of Sedgemoor by King James II's men and the Bloody Assizes that followed, the British Isles faces an uneasy time. Many powerful men have grown tired of Catholic James's brutal, autocratic rule and seek to invite William, the Protestant Prince of Orange, to seize the thrones of the Three Kingdoms.

When Lieutenant Holcroft Blood, a brilliant but unusual gunnery officer in His Majesty's Ordnance, discovers that a sinister French agent, known only by his code name Narrey, has landed on English soil, he discovers a plan that could threaten the stability of the nation even further.

While revolution brews in the gentlemen's clubs of London, Holcroft faces a deadly choice - fight for his king, or fight for his friends.

Every decision has a consequence - would you be willing to pay the price?


'Splendid' The Times

'Exhilarating adventure' Sunday Express

'Thrilling, all-action . . . gripping adventure and fun here aplenty' Lancashire Evening Post

Ratings and reviews

I tried, I really did. I keep picking the book up, reading a couple (or ten) pages and then putting it back down again. This has been going on since Halloween and I'm still not in triple figures page count wise. Is it because I haven't read the first in the series? No, I don't think so, never been a problem before I can usually figure it out and manage to get into a book even when it is a few deep in to an established series. Is it the setting? I like historical novels and I've read quite a few and even given some of them 5 star reviews so it can't be that. Is it the writing? The writing is actually quite good, the early battle scene was actually quite tense and you got a real sense of the musket fire and the cannon smoke and boom. Is it the characterisation? Could be, but then again they feel like fully rounded people on the page and normally that's all I need. I am now officially giving up on it though - at page 81. I am usually never beaten by a book but this one feels like a chore every time I pick it up and after 10 days of persevering I've officially had it; I'm done. I RECEIVED A FREE COPY OF THIS BOOK FROM READERS FIRST IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW.

K.Evans

About the author

Angus Donald was born in China in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. For over twenty years he was a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London. He now works and lives in Kent with his wife and two children.