"Bloody battles, merciless conditions, and medieval oligarchs — this heady historic blockbuster featuring a band of 14th-century soldiers is fierce, captivating, and comic with it. "
The second book in Dan Jones’ Essex Dogs trilogy, Wolves of Winter is a wild ride of historic fiction set around a band of rampaging 14th-century soldiers — the eponymous Essex Dogs.
It’s bloody, it’s salty, it’s a hands-down hearty feast of heady drama backed by historic detail, with larger-than-life characters whose every curse and move darts from the page like a killer crossbow in flight.
It’s the mid-14th-century, and following a brutal, bruising battle at Crecy, the Essex Dogs must prepare themselves for a fresh fight. Sent to attack Calais, with King Edward having declared that no man of England may return until it’s taken, they must endure cruelly harsh conditions in an anarchic camp. At the same time, each of the Essex Dogs are beset by personal demons that threaten to tear them asunder, if the battlefield or camp doesn’t get there first.
In the company of the Essex Dogs, in their dirty dog-eat-dog world, fans of Bernard Cornwall will be exhilarated by the author’s visceral evocations of money men, merchants and pirates, and by the Dogs’ physical and mental fights for survival.
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AN ENDLESS WAR.
A BLOOD-SOAKED BATTLEFIELD.
A BAND OF BROTHERS
1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers of fortune known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting – and their own lives.
Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield.
Obsessed with tracking down the vanished Captain, Loveday struggles to control his own men. Romford is haunted by the reappearance of a horrific figure from his past. And Scotsman is spiralling into a pit of drink, violence and self-pity.
The Dogs are being torn apart – but this war is far from over. It won't be long before they lose more of their own…
From a vast siege camp built outside Calais' walls, to pirate ships patrolling the harbour, and finally into the darkest corners of oligarchs' houses inside a starving city, this captivating and darkly comic story brings the fourteenth century vividly to life. A searing tale about merchants, money and the medieval 'deep state', this is a must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.
Wolves of Winter features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Books of the Month, Action Adventure, Historical adventure fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Wolves of Winter is available in Paperback, Hardback
Wolves of Winter was written by Dan Jones and published by Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Wolves of Winter has 416 pages
Yes it is part of The Essex Dogs Trilogy series
£8.99
