Review ‘An enjoyable, sweeping and often touching tale of bravery’SFX‘This is a rip-roaring adventure story; the pace rarely flags. There’s scheming, murder and betrayal aplenty’Interzone‘A vivid historical setting and a lengthy and satisfying plot’Publishing News‘I can confidently assure you that fantasy writing doesn’t get much better than this’The Express‘Powerful and deeply moving. The Iron Lance is an engrossing read’Starburst‘Amusing and interesting’Locus From the Back Cover In the summer of 405AD, Irish raiders attack the western coast of Wales, carving a fiery swathe through the peaceful countryside. Among the survivors who are rounded up and taken back to Ireland is Succat: an impulsive sixteen-year-old son of a powerful Roman family.Succat is sold as a slave and put to work tending sheep. Repeated escape attempts lead to ever more brutal and savage beatings, until he comes to the attention of Cormac, a young novice Druid. The two strike up an unlikely friendship and, as Succat learns the ways of the Irish people, he is given a new name by the Druid: Patrick.With a new name begins Patrick’s new life: he is married, and the two decide to return to his home to claim his inheritance, only to find his father’s estate in ruins. So begins a calamitous journey that will lead him to Tours; see him join the Roman Legion as a soldier; suffer the the horrors of a plague-filled Rome; and thence back to Ireland, where he will embark on a mission for which his name will be remembered throughout history.In the spirit of Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian cycle, Patrick is a gritty and unsentimental portrait of one of the Western world's great icons, featuring an accurate and compelling rendering of the historical period – an era full of brutal conflict, adventure, turmoil, and visionary inspiration. See all Product description
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