Gulling The Kings
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“Oh yes. So you are. So you are. Of course. Well, you shall certainly get what is due you. God wills it.”
I sensed the swordsman stiffen as the Bishop said the words and opened the lid of the chest. The Bishop reached in with both hands and took a big handful of bezants in his left hand and placed them on the table.
He spread the gold coins out on the table and motioned Thomas forward to help him count as he reached back in to fetch another handful. I stepped further to the left and even closer to the guard so Thomas would have plenty of room to step forward to help the Bishop count.
Everything happened at once when Thomas leaned forward to start counting the coins. The Bishop reached again into his money chest as if to get another handful. This time he came out with a dagger—and lunged across the coins on the table to drive it into Thomas’s chest with a grunt of satisfaction.
The swordsman next to me simultaneously began pulling his sword from its wooden scabbard. Killing us had all been prearranged. …..
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There are additional books in the saga of the company of archers.
All of the books in this great saga of medieval England are available as eBooks, and some of them are also available in print and as audio books. You can find them by going to Amazon, Google, Bing, or Goodreads and searching for Martin Archer fiction.
The next book in the saga is The Magna Carta Decision. The first book in the saga, in case you desire to start at the beginning, is The Archers.
In addition to the individual novels, a collection of the first six books of the saga is available on Kindle as The Archers’ Story: Part I. Similarly, a collection of the next four books in the saga is available on Kindle as The Archers’ Story: Part II, and the next three are in The Archers’ Story Part III.
There are additional books beyond those. A chronological list of all the books in the saga, and other books by Martin Archer, can be found below.
Amazon print and eBooks in order in the exciting and action-packed The Company of Archers saga:
The Archers
The Archers’ Castle
The Archers’ Return
The Archers’ War
Rescuing the Hostages
Kings and Crusaders
The Archers’ Gold
The Missing Treasure
Castling the King
The Sea Warriors
The Captain’s Men
Gulling the Kings
The Magna Carta Decision
The War of the Kings
The Company’s Revenge
The Ransom
The New Commander (coming 2018)
Amazon eBooks in Martin Archer’s epic Soldiers and Marines saga:
Soldiers and Marines
Peace and Conflict
War Breaks Out
War in the East
Israel’s Next War (A prescient book much hated by Islamic reviewers)
eBook Collections on Amazon
The Archers Stories I - complete books I, II, III, IV, V, VI
The Archers Stories II - complete books VII, VIII, IX, X,
The Archers Stories III - complete books XI, XII, XIII (coming)
The Soldiers and Marines Saga - complete books I, II, III
Other eBooks you might enjoy:
Cage’s Crew by Martin Archer writing as Raymond Casey
America’s Next War by Michael Cameron – an adaption of Martin Archer’s War Breaks Out to set it in the immediate future when Eastern and Western Europe go to war over another wave of Islamic refugees.
The saga of the archers continues.