Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One: Castillon

Christian Cameron

Aug 2012 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Castillon: Part One of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.

1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who have taken him captive.

He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople.

Ratings and reviews

I've been waiting for some time to get ereading and dip into the Swan series so widely praised by my peers. Well worth the waiting. It is as expected, great work from one of my favourite authors who whether as Miles or Christian has not disappointed me. Good rollicking stuff, Cameron keeps the action moving, has eschewed back stories and diversions, and has that Chaucerian wink and laconic style to engage us. On to the next one....

Great, fast paced read

About the author

Christian Cameron is a writer, re-enactor and military historian. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, where he served as both an aviator and an intelligence officer. He is a co-author, with his father Ken Cameron, of the acclaimed Gordon Kent military thriller series, as well as WASHINGTON AND CAESAR, a novel of the American Revolution. He now lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter, where he writes full time.