Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One

Name: Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One
Rating: 4.3 (660 reviews)

by Christian Cameron Book 1 in the Tom Swan and the Head of St George series.

First published 2012

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In 1450s France, young Englishman Tom Swan kneels before captors who intend to execute him. He is neither a professional soldier nor a conventional gentleman, but a merchant, opportunist and aspiring scholar whose interest in the remains of Greece and Rome has placed him in the path of armies.

Swan survives by observing what his captors want and talking faster than they can kill him. His escape from the aftermath of the English defeat at Castillon begins a career in which antiquities, commerce and intelligence gathering repeatedly become inseparable from duels and war.