The extraordinarily rich, dark, panoramic tale of an orphaned boys quest for truth and then for vengeance as war rages across 17th-century Europe.Amidst the chaos of the Thirty Years War, Jack Fiskardo embarks upon a quest that will carryhim inexorably from France to Amsterdam and then onto the battlefields of Germany. As hegrows to manhood will he be able to unravel the mystery of his fathers death? Or will hisfathers killers find him first?The Silver Wolf is a tale of secrets and treachery and the relentlessness of fate - but it is also astory of courage and compassion, of love and loyalty and ultimately of salvation too.Book One of Fiskardos War marks the start of a series of unforgettable, epic historical fictionfor readers of Ken Follett and Kate Mosse.
P>About the Author: J. C. Harvey is the fiction pen-name for Jacky Colliss Harvey. After studying English at Cambridge, and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Jacky worked in museum publishing for twenty years, first at the National Portrait Gallery and then at the Royal Collection Trust, where she set up the Trusts first commercial publishing programme. The extraordinary history of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) and of 17th-century Europe has been an obsession of hers for as long as she can remember. THE SILVER WOLF marks her fiction debut.- We ship across Australia, including major cities like: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Newcastle and the Gold Coast