
Tom Swan and the Head of St George
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Peter Noble
1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who have taken him captive.
He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople.©2012 Christian Cameron (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
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Great book. Highly recommended
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Picaresque
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Really enjoyable book
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like listening to a blockbuster movie
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Another great listen!
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As always an amazing book from Cameron
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Also, Peter Noble is possibly the best male performer of the written word. I hope he lives for ever.
Underrated, Superlative
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The best part I think of the book so far is the narrator Peter Noble. I really like his performance, and his voice just fits the role for the book very well. I'm very glad to see he seems to do a lot of Christian Cameron's books, especially this series.
Though, sometimes plot points don't add up, or I have to go back and re-listen to figure things out, or there are some characters that I think seemed to either stop existing entirely or change in some way without much explanation, like for example [---Spoilers---] the Bishop that headed the Pope's embassy to the Sultan, where did he go to after they fled? And half way through the book, they started referring to Alessandro as Di Bracchio after the escape, and it was very confusing for me. [---End of Spoiler---]
All in all, it's a good historical fiction adventure book that doesn't take it's premise too hard or too solemn. Definitely a recommend.
Indiana Jones In Armour
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Cameron does it again!
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Contrary to what has been written, the ways he gets out of each predicament was rarely duplicated. It could be charm, wit, ingenuity, skill at arms, negotation, etc.
And yes, it's mostly a lighthearted romp aboit a swashbuckling hero, but that swashbuckling hero also (tiny spoiler alert)
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develops PTSD and becomes disgusted with killibg.
Believe the stars (tiny spoiler(?)
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