Anthony Wilding’s novel takes readers to 1685, when the king Charles II’s illegitimate son attempted to seize the throne.
Rafael Sabatini is called the “English Dumas.” More than fifty novels came from his pen. The writer once said he knew only one passion—history. And he proved that with all his work, moving effortlessly from events of the French Revolution to the times of the Spanish Inquisition and the Italian Renaissance.