Bøker av Nick Mccarty

Civil War is a time when loyalties are tested, friendships destroyed, marriages put under pressure. Civil War is a time when brother fights brother, father fights son and those trapped in the middle are blown like chaff in the wind between one side and the other.It was no different in England when, in 1642, the political conflict between Parliament and the King became an armed struggle.It is against this anarchy that the FOX stories are set. Roundheads.This is the first of a series of novels of murder, villainy, greed, lust, betrayal and revenge and of a man tormented by a conscience bequeathed him by his gentle wife

"Gentlemen, The Regiment..."The men of the Cotswolds were heirs to a proud tradition. Whether aristocrat or foundling, veteran or recruit, countryman or cockney, scholar, bully, thief, philanderer, martinet, cynic or coward, their lives were the Regiment's to lay down for Queen and country.Soon scarlet and gold give way to bloody khaki as they pursue the Boer Commandos across the pitiless veld.

The English Civil War has begun. Rumours about the activities of the Queen who is money raising in Holland are spreading. What is the small cabal around her, led by the vicious Harry Morton, really planning? Fox, searching for his daughter, finds himself working yet again for Black Tom Fairfax and Thurloe the Parliamentarian master spy. This is the world of double cross and danger, the world Fox and Maeve Ahearn know so well.But what is it Thurloe really wants to know?Fox - Cromwell's Spy introduced this mercenary soldier. Betrayals is the second book in the series.