Are you a fan of old fashioned adventure tales? Then prepare to travel back to the age of Richard the Lionheart and Robin Hood in the pages of LONGBOW, the beginning novel in the SAGA OF ROLAND INNESS trilogy.
About the book:
Roland Inness desperately needs meat for his starving family, but he takes the wrong deer on the wrong nobleman’s land. Worse yet, he uses his longbow, a weapon outlawed and suppressed by the Norman overlords of England. Now they are coming for him. With one shot the 14 year old peasant boy is launched on a desperate flight that takes him from the mountains of Derbyshire to the wild frontier of Wales and on to the court of Richard the Lionheart. Along the way he is hunted by a paid killer, aided by a strange monk named Tuck, and taken in by a gruff Norman knight, who values his amazing skill with the bow. That skill and his courage are sorely tested as he fights to earn the trust of his new master.
“An action-adventure set in 12th-century England, this is an appealing read filled with bows and arrows, sword fights, and the like. …By celebrating Roland’s courage and bravery, the author gives audiences an engaging hero they can easily root for.”~Publishers Weekly
This is an ideal book for lovers of high adventure and particularly for young men who might be persuaded to put down the game controller for a real adventure! LONGBOW is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle versions. Search by author or title. You may also find it at the author’s website www.waynegrantbooks.com.
Wayne Grant is a graduate of West Point. He served in the US Army with the 1st Armored Division in Erlangen, Germany and with the 4/7th Cavalry Squadron in Yongugol, South Korea. He later served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (FM) from 1984-1988.