The national fencing team coach, a model family man Alexander Lemeshev, gets hit by a truck… and is reborn in the body of Jean d’Armañac, viscount of Lavardand Rockebren, an illegitimate son of Count Jean V d’Armañac. His father is killed, his mother is in a monastery, the ancestral lands have been seized by the king of France, and a hunt is declared for the bastard.
Jean becomes the commander of a detachment of hired archers calling themselves “ruthiery,” under the banners of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. He fights the Swiss Confederation. Our hero, as always, is in the front ranks, despite the fact that at home a family waits for him and demands oversight of extensive estates. That’s the only way: his father’s death hasn’t been avenged yet. And besides the dangers of military battles, Alexander Lemeshev is also threatened by conspiracies, intrigues, and vile pranks from enemies…