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Gate of the Dead

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by David Gilman


  Blackstone,

  Master of War.

  III – Gate of the Dead

  TUSCANY, 1358

  Thomas Blackstone has built a formidable reputation in exile, fighting as a mercenary amid the ceaseless internecine warring of Italy’s City States. Success has bred many enemies, who will seize any opportunity to destroy the man they cannot overcome on the field.

  When a dying man delivers a message recalling Blackstone to England, it seems almost certain to be a trap. Yet Blackstone cannot decline – the summons is apparently from the Queen.

  Blackstone will brave the terrors of the High Alps in winter, face the Black Prince in Tournament in Windsor, confront the bloody anarchy of a popular revolt in northern France and submit to trial by combat with a man he knows could kill him.

  And every step of the way, he will be shadowed by a notorious assassin, a killer who has been instructed to inflict the maximum pain on his target before he despatches him to hell.

  The fourth book in the Master of War series will be released in winter 2016

  Coming soon from David Gilman

  The Last Horseman

  Dublin 1899. Lawyer Joseph Radcliffe and his black American comrade Benjamin Pierce were ‘Buffalo Soldiers’ in the Civil War and the Indian Wars; now Radcliffe defends the toughest cases in a troubled city. But a far-off war is raging, the battle between the British and the Boers in South Africa, and, after an argument with his father, Joseph’s son Edward runs away to join the Irish forces there.

  When Edward is captured and held as a spy, Radcliffe and Pierce – a black man in a white man’s war – set off to find the young man and bring him back to Ireland. In the harsh South African terrain, the two old soldiers find their survival skills tested to the hilt in this epic tale of heroism and treachery, love and loyalty.

  David Gilman delivers another historical page-turner, once again he thrills and astounds with his breathtaking battle scenes, drawing on his own first-hand experience of soldiering. This is the Anglo-Boer War told as never before, by a master writer.

  The Last Horseman will be released in autumn 2016

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  First published in the UK as an eBook in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd.

  Copyright © David Gilman, 2015

  The moral right of David Gilman to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

  This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

  ISBN (HB) 9781781852903

  ISBN (XTPB) 9781781852910

  ISBN (E) 9781781852934

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