For the Crown and the Dragon: Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Hunt: Books

Product Description

CN Gilmore, Reviewer; Interzone & Foundation

Hunt has no lack of pace, colour ... there's enough battle, murder and sudden death for everyone.

Locus magazine

For those who like really old-fashioned adventure, this is an intriguing start to a new series and an impressive first novel.

Arcane Magazine

Stranger and more cynical than a mere Sherwood Forest chestnut ... the raft of great characters have a black sense of humour to match.

The Guardian

A colorful, but tough and uncompromising first novel.

Book Description

It is the final years of the 18th century, but a world which few would recognise. The people of Europe shelter in small islands of safety, havens from the enchanted wilderness - the strange boundless forests men call the Tumble.

It is across this demon haunted landscape that the low-born officer Taliesin must lead his men, caught up in the deadliest of intrigues while fighting wars for a noble class which despises him.

With vicious murderers from the worst gutters in the Realm marching behind him, and the forces of the most powerful nations of the mainland arrayed against him, the odds are stacked against Taliesin. Heavily.

Yet he will fight on, battling armies, weirdsman sorcerers, assassins, beastmen and cross into the face of hell itself.

Not for loyalty, or a grudging respect for his scheming monarch - not even for the small mountain of silver the Island Queen has promised him if he succeeds.