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Laurence
J. Brown.
Cold
heart, Cruel Hand: A Novel of Hereward the Wake.
Paul
Mould
Publishing, 2004.
ISBN
1904959040.
346pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £15.00/US$25.00
Spring
1070: William
the Conqueror has been King of England for three years, but his reign
has
not been a peaceful one. Rebellion has followed bloody rebellion as the
Saxon people have risen up against the tyranny of their Norman
oppressors.
With ruthless efficiency the Conqueror has crushed each one with
shocking
brutality. All seems lost, but in the fens of East Anglia, a
charismatic
Saxon, a nobleman dispossessed of his lands, lights the flame of
rebellion
one last time and calls upon the people to fight for their freedom. His
name is Hereward the Wake, and soon he is joined in bloody conflict
with
the Conqueror as the two men fight for supremacy of the land.
Into
this cauldron
comes the last of Harold's housecarls, Ranulf Redbeard and his family,
determined to join the Wake in his fight for freedom. Their journey to
the fens has not been easy and now Ranulf encounters his most deadly
foe:
a sadistic knife fighter who will stop at nothing to achieve his
soaring
ambitions...
A
sequel to Housecarl,
Laurence J Brown's acclaimed account of the Norman Conquest of England
in 1066, Cold Heart, Cruel Hand follows the adventures of
Ranulf
Redbeard as he fights alongside Hereward the Wake in a final bloody
stand
on the Isle of Ely.
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