Demon Knight: The Years of Longdirk : 1525 [Mass Market Paperback]

Ken Hood (Author)

Book Description

Series: Years of Longdirk | Publication Date: June 1998

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When the Scottish outlaw Tobias Longdirk used gramarye, or magic, to defeat the Fiend, he did more than save Europe from abject slavery. He made himself the most feared and most envied man in all Italy.

Now, with the hordes poised once more to sweep down over the Alps, Toby and his friend Hamish must unite the quarreling city-states when no ally can be trusted and traitors lurk in every shadow. At stake is far more than just a continent's destiny. At stake is a woman's love!

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Harper Prism (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061057592
• ISBN-13: 978-0061057595
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,440,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars highly entertaining, very tightly plotted, July 23, 1998

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This review is from: Demon Knight: The Years of Longdirk : 1525 (Mass Market Paperback)

This story is a rousing adventure story of the sort that one might find written by Alexander Pope but with magic and involving the chaotic state of Italy during the time of the condotierre, generals for hire during the Renaissance. One might also compare it to the movie Ladyhawke, but on a much greater scale. The story follows Toby Longdirk and his sidekick Hamish in their efforts to stop the demon-possessed King of England from conquering all of Europe. Along the way, for a change, the spectre of true love and a lady in distress, in the form of Princess Elizabeth of England, appears to complicate things. It gets suitably Macchiavelian toward the end, but I eagerly await further novels. I am not one of these readers who can only handle straightforward storylines. This is not a childrens book, it has too much detail and plot twists to appeal to the Saturday morning cartoon violence crowd.