Captain Stryker Adventures – serie

If any man can keep his nerve in a war tearing England apart, it's Captain Stryker.The year is 1642. England is bleeding. King and Parliament have plunged the country into civil war, and no road is safe.Captain Stryker didn't return home out of loyalty to a king. He came back to face his enemy: Captain Eli Makepeace, the man who left him scarred and hardened. The man who nearly destroyed him.But vengeance will have to wait.Prince Rupert has a mission only Stryker can pull off: hunt down a spy buried deep inside the Royalist cause — and silence him before the damage becomes irreversible. Lightly armed, outnumbered, and moving through a country crawling with enemies on both sides, Stryker must move fast.He doesn't know that someone else is already closing in on the same man. Someone he has sworn to kill...A gritty and authentic historical civil war adventure, this is perfect for fans of David Gilman, Giles Kristian and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.Reviewers love Michael Arnold!‘A thumping good read... every last part of this book oozes authenticity.’ Ben Kane ‘I loved Sharpe. I am going to be equally at home with Captain Stryker.’ Historical Novels Review ‘You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire’ Robyn Young ‘A dark-hued romp, livid with the scents, sounds and colours of a country on the brink of implosion.’ Daily Express 'Rollicking action and proper history... a cracking series.' Anthony Riches ‘This is masterfully done.’ The Times

It's 1643 and England stands divided: King against Parliament, town against country, brother against brother.For Captain Stryker, scarred veteran of the brutal wars in the low countries, the rights and wrongs of the Royalist cause mean little. Stryker's loyalty is to his band of soldiers — and to Queen Henrietta's beautiful but deadly agent Lisette Gaillard, who has gone into hiding with a man who holds the key to the king's victory.In the bloody aftermath of the storming of Cirencester, Prince Rupert dispatches Stryker on a secret mission to find Lisette. Stryker vows to let nothing stand in his way – but to keep his word, he must face false imprisonment, survive a doomed siege and evade a fanatical assassin leaving a trail of bodies across the Midlands. And all while Parliament is closing its iron grip around the cathedral walls of Lichfield...A gritty and authentic historical civil war adventure, this is perfect for fans of David Gilman, Giles Kristian and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.Reviewers love Michael Arnold!‘A thumping good read... every last part of this book oozes authenticity.’ Ben Kane ‘I loved Sharpe. I am going to be equally at home with Captain Stryker.’ Historical Novels Review ‘You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire’ Robyn Young ‘A dark-hued romp, livid with the scents, sounds and colours of a country on the brink of implosion.’ Daily Express 'Rollicking action and proper history... a cracking series.' Anthony Riches ‘This is masterfully done.’ The Times

It's May 1643, and the Royalist cause is reeling. In the bloody aftermath of Sourton Down, Captain Stryker and his men are retreating across the wild borderlands of Dartmoor – fighting just to survive.Then Stryker captures a Parliamentarian ammunition wagon from under the nose of ruthless Colonel Wild, and gains two powerful enemies. Wild swears to hunt him down, and at his side rides Osmyn Hogg, a fanatical witchfinder with his own deadly score to settle.Soon Stryker's dwindling company have been driven onto a remote granite tor, outnumbered and outgunned. And if they can break free, a harder fight still lies ahead. For the road from Dartmoor leads to the village of Stratton, where an outnumbered Royalist army must storm an entrenched enemy position and break the Earl of Stamford's grip on the South-West...A gritty and authentic historical civil war adventure, perfect for fans of David Gilman, Giles Kristian and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.Reviewers love Michael Arnold!‘A thumping good read... every last part of this book oozes authenticity.’ Ben Kane ‘I loved Sharpe. I am going to be equally at home with Captain Stryker.’ Historical Novels Review ‘You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire’ Robyn Young ‘A dark-hued romp, livid with the scents, sounds and colours of a country on the brink of implosion.’ Daily Express 'Rollicking action and proper history... a cracking series.' Anthony Riches ‘This is masterfully done.’ The Times

It's 1643, and the tide is turning for the Royalist cause. Bristol has fallen to the King, and eyes are fixed on neighbouring Gloucester.Captain Stryker is still reeling from the losses at Stratton, and now he's been ordered on a secret mission: infiltrate the rebel city of Gloucester, and discover if its governor, Sir Edward Massie, will surrender without a fight.Alone and unarmed behind enemy lines, Stryker knows he might not make it out alive. But when catastrophe strikes, salvation comes from the last man he expected: Stryker's former commander, a mercenary now under Parliament's banner. As old friends navigate a civil war from opposite sides, Stryker begins to question his loyalties – until a chance discovery reveals a threat that reaches far beyond the walls of Gloucester, and to the throne of King Charles himself...A gritty and authentic historical civil war adventure, perfect for fans of David Gilman, Giles Kristian and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.Reviewers love Michael Arnold!‘A thumping good read... every last part of this book oozes authenticity.’ Ben Kane ‘I loved Sharpe. I am going to be equally at home with Captain Stryker.’ Historical Novels Review ‘You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire’ Robyn Young ‘A dark-hued romp, livid with the scents, sounds and colours of a country on the brink of implosion.’ Daily Express 'Rollicking action and proper history... a cracking series.' Anthony Riches ‘This is masterfully done.’ The TimesAnd so do readers:‘One of the best historical authors out there today. 10/10’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A revelation – I was gripped from the very first page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘One of the best pieces of war writing I have read from any era.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I would put Michael Arnold up there with with Cornwell, Kane and Scarrow’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The battle scenes will leave you blood-spattered.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It's autumn 1643, and the war is grinding England to dust. Captain Stryker rides out of Oxford with new orders: travel to the storm-lashed Scilly Isles and recover a treasure vital to the Royalist cause. But the islands offer no sanctuary. A formidable Parliamentarian agent, Tainton, has got there first. He's feared by ally and enemy alike, and driven by a hatred for Stryker that runs deeper than politics.The quest for the gold pulls Stryker and his men south, across savage seas, through enemy territory, and into the walls of Basing House, where one of the great sieges of the Civil War is about to begin. And where Stryker will face the most dangerous reckoning of his life...A gritty and authentic historical civil war adventure, perfect for fans of David Gilman, Giles Kristian and Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.Reviewers love Michael Arnold!‘A thumping good read... every last part of this book oozes authenticity.’ Ben Kane ‘I loved Sharpe. I am going to be equally at home with Captain Stryker.’ Historical Novels Review ‘You can smell the gunpowder and hear the cannon fire’ Robyn Young ‘A dark-hued romp, livid with the scents, sounds and colours of a country on the brink of implosion.’ Daily Express 'Rollicking action and proper history... a cracking series.' Anthony Riches ‘This is masterfully done.’ The TimesAnd so do readers:‘One of the best historical authors out there today. 10/10’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A revelation – I was gripped from the very first page’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘One of the best pieces of war writing I have read from any era.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I would put Michael Arnold up there with with Cornwell, Kane and Scarrow’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The battle scenes will leave you blood-spattered.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐