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Torres de medianohce | by jesser rose Dec. 14, 2011 | 375247 words | Read a sample |
| Los cascos de Mandarb marcaban un ritmo familiar en el terreno accidentado. Lan Mandragoran cabalgaba hacia su muerte. El aire seco le provocaba escozor en la garganta y el suelo estaba salpicado de cristales de sal que salÃan a la superficie después de desecarse bajo tierra | ||||
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Amanda Ackers and The Deep Forest Elves | by GlennAndSasha Gabriel Jan. 03, 2012 | 244305 words | Read a sample |
| Book One. This series tells of the Greatest Adventures In Modern Elvish History. Challenges and battles abound. Join Amanda Ackers and elves, dwarves, witches, wizards, and other creatures, as she finds a long lost and powerfully Wizitched artifact, that she was never meant to find. She must learn to control the spirits trapped within it, or all the good within all realms, will perish. | ||||
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The Three Musketeers For All | by Alexandra Dumas Aug. 16, 2010 | 232361 words | Read a sample |
| A D'Artagnyn story. A young Gascon woman goes to Paris, with little more than her mother’s sword, a letter of introduction and a burning desire to be a musketeer. That is if the Three Inseparables Athys, Porthys and Armays don’t kill her in duels first. Kings to save, plotting cardinals to counter, killers to catch, battles to win—for all! A Gender Switch Adventure. | ||||
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Meddlers In Time | by Wayne Watson Nov. 19, 2009 | 199617 words | Read a sample |
| You can’t change history- can you? No- but you can make a new reality when you alter events. ‘Meddlers in Time’ explores the shaping of a parallel earth, by altering events in 9th century England. Some were lured by money, other by the adventure- a few just wanted a new chance at life. One thing remains constant- time travel changes all who follow that path… | ||||
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Beyond The Blue, The Blue Series Volume 2, Part 1 | by Josephine Dillon March 31, 2012 | 187340 words | Read a sample |
| The War begins in two worlds. David must learn to survive in the Underworld; a dark domain created by God to destroy and absorb damned human souls. Chased by the Ruler of Nine, trapped in a Hell he once only dreamt about, David will either adapt and evolve, or become another harvested soul for the collection. Dillon questions the Divine and his place in the Living World without his brother. | ||||
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Amanda Ackers and The Realm Of The Witches | by GlennAndSasha Gabriel March 28, 2012 | 180810 words | Read a sample |
| Book Two of the Series. Fleeing for their lives after Amanda turns the wizard Blaine into stone, then fighting for her life in other battles, Amanda and her friends transport to The Realm of The Witches, in search of the mighty witch Bellinora - the only one who may be able to save Amanda. Will they survive the fierce battles against witches, wizards and hideous creatures that await them? | ||||
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Flight | by Neil Hetzner May 04, 2012 | 160252 words | Read a sample |
| It's 2097 and teens can fledge and grow wings. Fifteen year old Prissi Langue loves flying, school and her friends. However, after Prissi finds pictures of her dead mother with the man who invented fledging, she begins an investigation that uncovers long hidden secrets. Suddenly, it seems like everyone wants Prissi dead. Can Prissi fly far enough and fast enough to escape her enemies? | ||||
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Drakon skypro | by sky pro Jan. 12, 2012 | 150337 words | Read a sample |
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drakon2 | by sky pro Jan. 12, 2012 | 150337 words | Read a sample |
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Jókai Mór: Az arany ember | by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011 | 147914 words | Read a sample |
| "Nem sikerült neki az elszegényedés. A szerencse hódol annak, aki őt megveti. Akármihez fogott hozzá, amibe más ember bizton belebukott volna, az fényes sikerrel végződött; minden képtelenség lehetővé és valóvá lett a kezében: a kocka mindig hatot fordult; s ha szerencsejátékban akarta elveszteni a pénzét, szétrobbantotta a bankot." Free Version Kindlebook Hungary / MEK | ||||
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Children of the Sun | by David Crookes Dec. 21, 2010 | 144132 words | Read a sample |
| Tumara and Naomi are the last of a tribe of South Sea islanders,forced to flee their island home by European adventurers searching for Terra Australis.Only they know where Great Southland lies and they seek sanctuary there,hoping to start a new life.But they are captured and separated and taken to Europe as slaves.So starts their desperate struggle to be reunited again and return to South Seas | ||||
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Beyond The Blue, The Blue Series Volume 2, Part 2 | by Josephine Dillon April 06, 2012 | 142787 words | Read a sample |
| Dillon uncovers his voice and develops his own power as he struggles to adapt to the changes in his young life. Haunted by demons sent to distract and tempt him away from his faith, Dillon will either make allies with the angel sent to help him, or choose his own path. | ||||
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A Bard's Folktale: Roaming Cadenza | by Aramis Barron July 04, 2011 | 140197 words | Read a sample |
| Summer after high school graduation, Kody Lehane takes off on the open road. His objective? To help his old co-worker Glenn overcome his traumatic past. Kody, his good friend Charisma, and his ex-lover Alma, will stop at nothing to help Glenn, even if it means breaking old promises, betraying those closest to them, and retracing the steps of the dead to find what they think they're looking for. | ||||
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Omaha | by Kevin O'Kane Jan. 16, 2010 | 134283 words | Read a sample |
| Mike is a reporter who knows a lot of secrets. Jack is a drug lord who wants those secrets buried. David and Todd are Mike's cyber geek friends who are dot-com rich and seriously dangerous. Jack never really had a chance. An Orwellian thriller about a band of mild mannered computer geeks who are lords of an unseen electronic empire. | ||||
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Coast of Tears | by David Haviland June 27, 2011 | 130386 words | Read a sample |
| Intrigue and superstition envelop an isolated pearling community on Australia's wild Kimberley coast where men must contend with the perils of the deep,and unknown dangers await the explorer who ventures inland. The town's survival may depend on the explorer's fiance who, while stranded there, falls in love with a pearler determined to resolve the mystery of his father's untimely death. | ||||
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Microcosmia | by Ron Sanders Dec. 12, 2010 | 116118 words | Read a sample |
| A troubled young billionaire heads for drought-stricken Africa to become Ethiopia’s great white savior. Vastly imaginative and hugely original. Microcosmia. | ||||
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Storm World: Speaker Of The Gods | by Jonathan DeCoteau July 21, 2011 | 111028 words | Read a sample |
| The first in a trilogy. Literary fantasy with Christian overtones. As unnnatural storms threaten Burgundy Hill, a gothic gang known as The Resurrection Men warn Samuel Johnson that these storms signal the end of days and that to survive, he must learn the ways of their order. Samuel resists, but must make a choice as the apocalypse nears. Not seeking reviews: enjoy or better luck elsewhere. | ||||
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Less Of Me | by Edward Goble Dec. 19, 2011 | 107756 words | Read a sample |
| Thank you for the kind reviews! Meet Andrew Boyd, an author riding a string of best selling spy novels featuring a retired Senior Intelligence Officer, Rance Broadback. Andy is under pressure to deliver the first draft of the next Broadback thriller, set in the mountains of eastern Kentucky entitled, Appalachian Malady. In Less Of Me, Ed Goble writes two books in one, a format everyone will enjoy | ||||
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The Blackwitch Legacy | by S. Bradley Stoner May 10, 2012 | 107518 words | Read a sample |
| Set against the vast lands and incomparable beauty of the Canadian Rockies, dominated by a towering black ridge, The Blackwitch Legacy brews a tale of conflict and triumph for both man and beast, where treasures are wrested from the cold breast of the Blackwitch and lost for a half century, only to reemerge and change lives forever. It is no tale for the faint hearted. | ||||
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The Cornshuck Memoirs: Song of Cinder Mountain | by Brad Beals Nov. 02, 2011 | 107059 words | Read a sample |
| Lonely, orphaned, and enslaved, E.P. Cornshuck has little to recommend him to the world. That is, until a mountain sheds its top and crushes flat his master's cottage. Freed now to seek out his old life, E.P. learns the truth about himself, his family, and the kingdom that awaits his return. Formerly published as Dragon Haint, the Memoirs is a witty, sometimes-violent, coming-of-age adventure. | ||||
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The Pursuit of Power | by M.M. Brownlow Jan. 19, 2012 | 106819 words | Read a sample |
| Betrayed by the man supposed to love and care for him, Callum watches his dreams disappear before his eyes. Only a twist of fate saves him from a life of beatings and misery, and Callum knows how lucky he is. Treated like a cherished protégé and raised to be more than he'd ever thought possible, Callum is grateful for everything his master has given him. How far will Callum go to repay him? | ||||
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Sociopath? | by Vicki Williams Jan. 26, 2012 | 105146 words | Read a sample |
| From the time he was a toddler, people said Rafe Vincennes reminded them of a black cat. Rafe's moral code is similar to a cat's as well in that he doesn't have one. In addition to adventuresome sex, Rafe has a penchant for visiting extreme retribution on those who wrong him. A champion race car driver, Rafe drives as daringly as he lives. | ||||
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Counterpart | by H. Schussman July 24, 2011 | 104875 words | Read a sample |
| Sport witnesses the murder of a family friend, and escapes into Sean’s protective custody. When a plot by Russia to infiltrate our nation is uncovered, Sean finds out too late his direct boss is the enemy. Sport has the evidence to prove it. The dilemma is how to keep Sport safe and resolve the escalating danger to the USA. When they realize the President is the next target, they join forces. | ||||
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New Patriot | by Theodore Doyle April 06, 2011 | 103292 words | Read a sample |
| When George Warren, Chief Scripter for AmericaNow, receives a highly blasphemous message titled MAN KILLED GOD, he becomes convinced that the dreaded Socicrats have returned and embarks on a quest to uncover the identities of the heretical authors. New Patriot is a glimpse into a not too distant future of a nation scarred by war, and a story of man's immortal longing for truth in a world of lies. | ||||
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A Dreaming Myth Vol. 1: The New World | by Brandon Benevides Nov. 28, 2011 | 100886 words | Read a sample |
| ready to leave this era of modernization? join with Brandon, a young adult about to enter a future world filled with fantasy and mythological beings walking, flying, and swimming the earth. welcome to the world of escapism and legend... | ||||
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After Life: Love | by Patrick Lee May 31, 2010 | 97380 words | Read a sample |
| Jackson Hamilton had everything in life, except for someone to share it with. When he found her, he lost it all. When one life ends, another begins, and the journey that everyone wonders about is much more spectacular than anyone imagines. Follow his experience learning to exist on the other side of the glass, trying to protect the people he loves most and save everyone in the process. | ||||
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Annalea, Princess of Nemusmar | by Stephen Shore Feb. 26, 2009 | 92818 words | Read a sample |
| After reading the first paragraph, you may conclude that this is a book about pirates. This is not a book about pirates. Okay, there are a few pirates in the book. (Okay, there are quite a few pirates in the book.) But this is not a book that is just about pirates. It provides intimate familiarity with strong characters and a sense of sharing in their lives and adventures. | ||||
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The Chronicles of Gan: The Thorn | by Daron Fraley Sep. 14, 2010 | 92433 words | Read a sample |
| Three tribes are at war on the planet Gan, unaware that the sign of Christ’s birth on an unknown world - Earth - is about to appear in the heavens. During a bloody skirmish with Gideonite troops, Jonathan of Daniel spares Pekah, a young enemy soldier. His merciful act results in a chain of events that saves the life of his betrothed, ends the war, and gives birth to a national hero. | ||||
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Texas MFA | by Tony Christini Oct. 29, 2009 | 91366 words | Read a sample |
| Creative writing in Texas. | ||||
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Shuri Gate | by Herb Blanchard Feb. 07, 2011 | 89173 words | Read a sample |
| SHURI GATE is the second book written about Okinawa and its people by the author. It was written as a memoir and to tell about the Americans who were stationed there in the military and their relationships with the Okinawan people. Most of the characters are profiles of real people or composites of several people the author knew on the island. | ||||
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Tarzan of the Apes Reswung | by Edna Rice Burroughs July 30, 2010 | 87889 words | Read a sample |
| A Tarzyn the Apewoman story. Joan Clayton and husband die, stranded in Africa. Their young daughter is taken in by a band of smarter apes. Raised to adulthood by her beast family, she becomes Tarzyn the Apewoman, one of the greatest heroes the world has ever known. Teaching herself from her parents belongings, she finds love in the arms of Jan Porter. A Gender Switch Adventure. | ||||
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Chosen | by Jolea M. Harrison June 29, 2011 | 87729 words | Read a sample |
| Chosen is a fantasy adventure - location; Hell, Purgatory, the Demon’s Lair, and Hell is everything it’s cracked up to be. Dynan Telaerin finds himself on a corpse-strewn hillside, charged with saving the soul of his ancestor. Will courage alone be enough to face the greatest evil to exist? Will he lose his soul to save everyone else? | ||||
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No Apologies and No Regrets | by Roddy Wix April 23, 2011 | 87343 words | Read a sample |
| When a pair of Russian hackers cause the NYSE "Flash Crash" of 2010 international enemies dash across Europe to fight for control of their source code. The President sends his secret "fixer", Frank Beretta, into the fray and it becomes personal. Beretta's old KGB nemesis gains the upper hand in a surprise move and puts himself on a firey collision course with the determined ex-Marine. | ||||
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The King's Assassin | by M.M. Brownlow Nov. 30, 2010 | 83361 words | Read a sample |
| The highly trained assassins of Evendell have a single, unyielding mission: defend the monarch of Bacovia, at any cost. Aislynn has been assigned to protect the heir apparent, Eryk. Yet Eryk’s independent streak offers stiff resistance to what anyone else has planned for him, especitally an untested and unfamiliar sentinel. | ||||
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A Frequent Traveller's Guide to Jovan: Book 1 | by Elle Black Aug. 28, 2011 | 80986 words | Read a sample |
| “A Frequent Traveller’s Guide to Jovan†chronicles the adventures of Valentin and Cassius, who face traitors, tyrants, bandits, femmes fatale and manage to prevent roughly as many wars as they start — all in service of the Empire. More or less. | ||||
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Cemetery At The End Of Harvey Road | by Wayne Rohrer Jan. 12, 2012 | 80973 words | Read a sample |
| While visiting the gravesite of Tony Matusiak, the world famous soccer player, photojournalist Tom Langdon witnesses a murder and becomes intertwined with the Matusiak family and their fight to survive. Tom’s struggle to uncover the truth takes him on a wild journey from a small town in Northern California to Poland and its royal family. | ||||
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Coordinates to Unmapped Places: The Collected Fiction of Bernard Schaffer | by Bernard Schaffer May 17, 2012 | 80894 words | Read a sample |
| He's been called "One of the best independent authors alive" and "El Presidente of the Kindle All-Stars," but for Bernard Schaffer, it all comes down to the stories. This volume collects his short fiction from a variety of sources that demonstrate his talent and diversity. | ||||
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Color Me Grey: Book One of the Alexis Stanton Chronicles | by J.C. Phelps July 05, 2010 | 79573 words | Read a sample |
| ...exciting, highly paid position for person with specialized training... Recently unemployed after quitting a boring office job, Alexis Stanton finds a mysterious ad in the help wanted section that might prove to be the answer to her desire for excitement and adventure. After an intense application process, including actually fighting with her competition, she gets the job of her dreams. | ||||
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A Dreaming Myth Vol 3: Infinite Discoveries | by Brandon Benevides April 16, 2012 | 79044 words | Read a sample |
| A mind is boggled, mysteries are surfacing, and pasts and origins are being revealed. the inner world is not all that is cracked to be, and an organization called the Alimor are after Brandon's head for unknown reasons. they will go very far to have him dead. Even if it means helping to instigate a war hoping that his body is among the dead. Will he emerge victorious? | ||||
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Adventure Arc the First: Entity of Ascendancy | by Zürthüryx Qosdarlu Aug. 01, 2011 | 79027 words | Read a sample |
| The town of Vallone is run by a ruthless government headed by a man named Contanis. They have an artifact called the Tablet of Omainu which means doom for the world, but they don't know how to use it yet. Meanwhile, a team of vagabonds known as Hex Immortal comes into the same town to save it by stopping the government and to save the world by getting the tablet. Free for a limited time only! | ||||
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Fistful of Reefer | by David Mark Brown July 13, 2011 | 78852 words | Read a sample |
| Fistful of Reefer is a dieselpunk, weird Western pulp featuring goats, guns and the camaraderie of outcasts. Set along the Texas border during the waining years of the Mexican revolution, Fistful focuses on a group of unlikely heros and their unlikely foe as they stumble upon the fringes of a cabal bent on world domination. Fistful lives between No country for Old Men and the Three Amigos. | ||||
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Brimstone and the Companions of Althea. by Ricky Sides and Kathy Young | by Ricky Sides June 01, 2010 | 78187 words | Read a sample |
| Born of the union of Artherk, god of good, and a mortal woman named Evelyn, Brimstone was destined for great things. The followers of his father rejoiced on the night that Evelyn gave birth to Artherk’s son but other, more sinister forces didn't share in that joy. Those forces conspired against the newly born Demigod and his mother. | ||||
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Vultures in the Playground | by A. Sparrow July 07, 2011 | 78157 words | Read a sample |
| Mugged fresh off a plane in Liberia, Archie Parsons is lucky to limit the damage to a scalp contusion and a stolen passport. Turns out, these weren’t ordinary thugs. They work for a powerful and shadowy industrial consortium that specializes in political assassination. Through a series of mishaps, Archie's identity becomes confused with that of their lead assassin - a man named Black. | ||||
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Desert Victim | by Ron Hudson Jan. 05, 2012 | 77826 words | Read a sample |
| The scene is the southwestern U.S., where Del Whipple, a DEA employee stumbles on an old abandoned mineshaft. When Whipple enters the mine he discovers a major methamphetamine operation. The perpetrators shoot and leave him to die. Miraculously he escapes, and is determined to bring his captors to justice. | ||||
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Falling Up | by Kevin Hill May 07, 2012 | 76613 words | Read a sample |
| Jesse is an American on the run in Cologne, Germany, who is given a chance to protect five children stolen from a trafficker.With the help of an old spy,a Jamaican ladies' man, and some street misfits, he slowly redeems his shattered life and gets close to the children's beautiful keeper. | ||||
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A Dreaming Myth Vol. 2: Cascading From Beyond The Border | by Brandon Benevides Feb. 09, 2012 | 75979 words | Read a sample |
| The members Nine Families are on en route to a city named Xalditrois, a huge city of magic built in the northern shores of Denmark. When Brandon is supposed to do is initiation to be a part of the Seven Twilight Kings, things take a big turn when the Necros came to Xalditrois doorstep, forcing Brandon to make a choice that will turn his life upside down in a world where more mysteries take flight. | ||||
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Right Ascension | by David Derrico Nov. 16, 2009 | 74436 words | Read a sample |
| Set in the year 3040, Right Ascension examines mankind's place in the Universe, how we ascended to that lofty position, and the horrifying price of that ascension. It tells the story of one highly virtuous man who comes face to face with an invincible adversary and is forced to choose between honor ... and humanity's very survival. | ||||
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The Disconnectionist | by James S. Hudson Jan. 16, 2011 | 73488 words | Read a sample |
| Cade, a young warrior-priest, takes a wild, post-apocalyptic road-trip through the ruins of our modern world, and a journey from naive idealism into the deeper complexities of love and morality. A band of companions joins him, and their growing intimacy make the powers of Cade's military-grade brain implant more unpredictable and dangerous, and their enemies even more determined to hunt them down | ||||
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Struggles of a Country boy | by Herb Blanchard Feb. 19, 2011 | 73189 words | Read a sample |
| This is the fictionalized story of the author's growing up years during the 1950s. It is the story of a troubled boy, a dysfunctional family and how the boy learned to cope with the adversities life threw at him. It was the time when it was generally thought the ideal way to raise a boy was to live in the country, give him a dog, a .22 rifle and let him roam the open fields and woods. | ||||
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Those Years Without | by James Welsh Dec. 10, 2010 | 72124 words | Read a sample |
| Peter de Vere, a soldier who has fled the crusader army, returns to his home in northern England to find his father dead and the family’s castle seized. Armed with little more than a ragtag army of rebels and his childhood friends, Milo and Isabella, Peter must prove that his home is worth fighting not only a tyrannical king but also one of the most brilliant generals of the medieval times. | ||||