The Cardinal's Sword Simon Fairax

The Cardinal’s Sword!Pre Renaissance Papal States at war, all to gain, yet Sabatini must choose a side.With the advent of the Western Schism, powerful Italian States are riven with war, greed and power. Into this maelstrom is thrust Flavio Sabatini pirate, routier and condottieri with a chequered life behind him, as he returns to his home town of Corneto.Yet with such men the past is never far behind. As an internecine war looms within the Italian states and Saracens threaten his home town, Sabatini’s sword arm cannot be still for long.Outside the law or within? Devil or angel? Sabatini must choose at a cost, when his past and future collide.Buy the first in the new Condottieri series today, to enter this deadly early renaissance world of murder, plotting and warring factions.