num_pages: 515
description: 'A gripping chronicle of pitched battle treachery and cruelty' ROBERT FABBRI.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. But success has bred many enemies and when a dying man delivers a message recalling him to England it seems almost certain to be a trap. Yet Blackstone cannot disobey  the summons is at the Queen's demand .On his journey Blackstone will brave the terrors of the High Alps in winter face the Black Prince in tournament confront the bloody anarchy of a popular revolt and submit to trial by combat.And every step of the way he will be shadowed by a notorious assassin with orders to despatch him to Hell .
language: English
title: Gate of the Dead
publisher: Head of Zeus