Charles Cordell has been a career soldier and diplomat on the ground in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. He has seen humanity at its best, its worst and its most desperate. His novels draw both on time spent on the fraying margins of civilisation and studies of the great political and religious crises of 17th century Europe. The Keys of Hell and Death is the second of his novels in the Divided Kingdom series, which chronicles Britain’s civil wars between 1642 and 1653.

'Charles Cordell, a former soldier, writes with a bravura confidence.'

Charles Cordell has been a career soldier and diplomat on the ground in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. He has seen humanity at its best, its worst and its most desperate. His novels draw both on time spent on the fraying margins of civilisation and studies of the great political and religious crises of 17th century Europe. The Keys of Hell and Death is the second of his novels in the Divided Kingdom series, which chronicles Britain’s civil wars between 1642 and 1653.

'Charles Cordell, a former soldier, writes with a bravura confidence.'

Charles Cordell has been a career soldier and diplomat on the ground in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa. He has seen humanity at its best, its worst and its most desperate. His novels draw both on time spent on the fraying margins of civilisation and studies of the great political and religious crises of 17th century Europe. The Keys of Hell and Death is the second of his novels in the Divided Kingdom series, which chronicles Britain’s civil wars between 1642 and 1653.

'Charles Cordell, a former soldier, writes with a bravura confidence.'