1. The Black Sheep
Set in Constantinople and western Anatolia from 1302, as the Catalan Company enters Byzantine service, constantinople 1302. Luca Baldi, a young shepherd, is catapulted into the violent world of mercenary warfare when he is forced to flee his native Sicily. He falls in with the Almogavars…
2. The White Dragon
Set in Thrace and Gallipoli around 1305, after the rupture between Byzantium and the Catalan Company, cry ‘havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war. After its great victories in Anatolia, the mercenary Catalan Company has been grossly betrayed by its paymasters. Now cornered on the…
3. The Golden Lion
Byzantine Thrace and Macedonia, after 1305. Luca Baldi and the Catalan Company have survived attempts to destroy them and now possess enough military power to dominate communities that once regarded them as hired soldiers. Victory, however, leaves them without a secure political settlement. Luca’s enemies exploit…
4. The Silver Stallion
Greece, 1310–1311. Luca Baldi and the Catalan Company have made enemies across the eastern Mediterranean. Once useful as mercenaries, they have become an armed community that rulers fear but cannot easily destroy, and their latest service under Walter of Brienne, Duke of Athens, ends in another…