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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
The fourth of Michael Arnold's Civil War Chronicles, this (I have to say) I actually found to be heavier going than any of the previous. The bulk of this novel concerns the Royalist siege of Gloucester - which, in hindsight, would prove to be the turning point of the war - during which (as any fictional hero would) Captain Stryker finds himself on both sides of the line - echoes, here, of Sharpe's Tiger!
Lacking the energy of the previous novels in the series in large part because Arnold takes on the task of covering the siege of Gloucester -- in great detail and from multiple viewpoints. In doing so he skips the sort of adventure his protagonists usually enjoy and the story drags and drags.
enjoyed the latest in the captain stryker series based around Gloucester in 1643 and the subplots brings the feel of the early stages of the English civil war to life