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Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. This a collection of three complete books from Martin Archer’s great action-packed saga about Cornwall’s Company of Archers, a free company that began operating armed transports and shipping posts at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and sometimes witty read that sticks pins into the Church and nobility along the way.It is the year 1219. George ...

Die großen Saga um den idealistischen Ermittler William Warwick geht weiter. William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner. Im sechsten Teil der großen Saga von Bestsellerautor Jeffrey Archer sind William und sein Team erneut für das Royal Protection Command tätig, das die Sicherheit der Königin und ihrer Familie gewährleisten soll. Dabei kommen sie einem finsteren Plan zum Raub der Kronjuwelen auf die Spur.

In Band 5 der Bestseller-Reihe ermittelt William Warwick im Umfeld des Royal Protection Command – und muss für die Sicherheit der Königinfamilie geradestehen. William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner. London, 1988: Ganz Großbritannien ist im Royal-Fieber. Die Prinzessin der Herzen steht im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit wie kein Mitglied der Königsfamilie vor ihr.

Author Michael Cameron Adams has done something new. This exciting and action-packed novel uses fiction to look at the war America and its allies might have to fight in the near future—and the experiences that will happen during the war to the men and women who are now in the military or about to join it. What is new is that the author has done this by revising and setting into the immediate future War Breaks Out, a novel by Martin Archer about the harsh realities of a war that might have happened in the past. Much has been made of the advances in warfare and weapons and the changes in ...

London: Die Metropolitan Police ruft eine neue Abteilung ins Leben, die sich ungelösten Fällen aus der Vergangenheit annehmen soll. Aber wie spürt man einen Mörder auf, dessen Spur bereits kalt ist? Genua: Der berüchtigte Millionär, Kunstsammler und verurteilter Betrüger Miles Faulkner wird für tot erklärt. Doch warum führt sein Anwalt die Geschäfte in seinem Namen fort? Atlantik: An Bord einer Luxusfähre mit Kurs auf New York kommt ein Mitglied einer einflussreichen Familiendynastie ums Leben.

This is the second action-packed book in Martin Archer's acclaimed "The Soldiers and Marines" saga describing what happens to a young combat soldier when he decides to become a professional soldier and stay on active duty. Chris Roberts leaves behind the intense Korean War combat between the United Nations' forces and the North Koreans and Chinese and is permanently assigned to Europe - until he finds himself serving with the French Foreign Legion's fabled Second Parachute Regiment as it goes down at Dien Bien Phu and then in charge of a small detachment tasked with filling NATO's gaps and ...

The United States appears to be on the verge of going to war in the near future. This is an action-packed novel about what might happen to America's soldiers and Marines when it does. It is a rewritten and updated version of an earlier Martin Archer novel entitled "War in the East."

This is an absolutely hilarious novel. You will love it if you enjoyed Jimmy Breslin's "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight." If Mel Brooks was alive he would make it into a movie. It is available for a movie screenplay.

William Warwick hat es weit gebracht, seit er vor wenigen Jahren als einfacher Streifenbeamter seinen Dienst bei der Londoner Polizei antrat. Mittlerweile ist er stolzer Vater von Zwillingen, und bei der Jagd auf Kunstfälscher und Drogenbarone hat er sich als fähiger Ermittler erwiesen. Doch nun lauert Unrecht in den eigenen Reihen: Der junge Detective Jerry Summers wird der Bestechlichkeit verdächtigt. Williams Team ermittelt undercover gegen die eigene Behörde - eine gefährliche Aufgabe, die höchstes Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert.

Das große Finale der internationalen Bestseller-Saga um William Warwick! William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner. Im siebten Band der Saga um William Warwick zieht der internationale Bestsellerautor Jeffrey Archer wieder alle Register.

Anne is killed, vengeance is exacted, and arrows fly, when William and his company of archers conduct cutting-out expeditions to take French and Moorish prizes and search for the priceless religious relics that were seized amidst the fighting and taken from Constantinople while it was being sacked by the crusaders. It is another of Martin Archer's exciting and action-packed novels in his epic "The Company of Archers" saga about a serf who rose to become the captain of what was left of a company of crusading English archers—and what happens to him and his men after he leads the survivors ...

This is a very good read. It is the latest in the series of exciting and action-packed novels in the saga of the company of crusading English archers whose courageous survivors returned to England and established the company’s home depot in Cornwall. It continues the story of the founding of the Archer family and the shipping and mercenary company that the younger of two brothers commanded in the cruel and brutal worlds of medieval England, Rome, and the Holy Land.

Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and church men are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. This is another book, and one of the very best, in Martin Archer's exciting and action-packed saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and sometimes witty read that sticks pins into the church and nobility along the way. The on-going saga of the Company of Archers is set in dangerous and gritty feudal England during a time...

A novella from the Company of Archers saga. Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and church men are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. "The Empire Has No Gold" is exciting novella in Martin Archer’s action-packed saga of Cornwall’s Company of Archers, a free company that began operating transports and shipping posts at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and witty read that sticks pins into the church and nobility along the way. The on-going ...

This is another epic novel in the great saga of The Company of English Archers, the archers who accompanied England's King Richard on his crusade and struggled to return to England when Richard abandoned his army and fled. In the course of trying return home, the company's handful of survivors, now led by a serf from Kent, took to the sea and ended up founding a great action-oriented shipping empire whose war galleys and men affected Medieval England's great and brutal game of thrones. It is the year 1216. The Moors and Christians are fighting for control of Spain, the Church is corrupt, ...

Taking a train full of currency or capturing a Spanish treasure ship is nothing compared to the greatest theft in history—when the captain of a company of English archers and his men stole the entire treasury and religious relics of the world’s greatest and richest empire and escaped to Cornwall with chests and chests of gold coins and priceless relics. This is part of the exciting and action-packed story of how it happened and, in particular, what happened afterward to affect the people involved.

The Moors' control of the Mediterranean is growing, the Queen is trying to replace King Edward with his son so her lover can rule, the French are trying to take over what remains of Edward's lands in France, nobles and churchmen are being gulled out of their coins, and the Company of archers has been separately employed by the King, the Queen, the City of London, and the Templars who have become Cistercians to protect the crown prince. And then there was the interesting question of where the coins in the Tower ended up when Edward II fled with them when the Queen's army was closing in and ...

This is a collection of the three most recent books in Martin Archer's exciting saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain's rise as a military and merchant powerhouse. The action is non-stop as arrows fly, swords clash, women are bedded, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are blamed for things they did not do. Medieval times were a real life game of thrones because there was little else to do. Harry Flashman and certain of today's people would have prospered in them.

The Venetians attempt to prevent the Latin Empire's gold from reaching Rome to buy the prayers needed before God will allow the Holy Father to recognize the widowed Empress as her son's regent.

This is the fifth in the many fine stories in the on-going saga of the Company of Archers. Swords clash, arrows fly, and nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins. Harry Flashman would be pleased and those who are politically correct appalled. This somewhat witty and always action-packed saga of the archers is set in medieval England in the years following King Richard's crusade. William and the survivors and their new recruits successfully raid Tunis on their way back to the Holy Land from England. But instead of continuing on to the Holy Land ports to earn their coins and bread ...