Siege Master

The Siege Master's Song: The Recollections of Lord Godric MacEuan on the First Crusade, Volume Two by Tom Vetter When justice is denied, vengeance will do. I am Baron Godric MacEuan. As sheriff-at-large for Scotland, I rode the entire kingdom for King Malcolm Canmore, dealing with the worst of men to protect the innocent and enforce the king's law. Now, I am young, and often underestimated because of it. But that is a serious mistake, for I have a talent for destruction. And not even your castle can save you, for I destroy castles, too. Yet when good King Malcolm was treacherously slain, I could not save him, nor bring his killer to trial... because his murderer was King William Rufus of England. Punish a king? You cannot. But you can take vengeance. So King Rufus rules England, and thinks himself safe to act as he likes because he wears its crown. But no man is truly safe from another set upon vengeance. Even a king. Especially from a man with my skills.

Some Things ARE Worth Dying For... In AD 1095 Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos begs Pope Urban II for Frankish knights to rescue the last bit of his Christian empire from a relentless Islamic invasion already 400 years old. In answer, Urban issues a call to the faithful to save Christendom. Many thousands respond, and their campaign to recover Jerusalem will be known to history as the First Crusade. Scottish Baron Godric MacEuan joins their ranks, and he is sorely needed. A decade earlier he scouted the Holy Land. Now he is highly-sought as a siege master. But Europe's castles are wooden, easily defeated by fire and battering rams. Holy Land cities are fortresses of stone, and the Crusaders have nothing that can conquer them. But Godric brings them tools they need most: expertise to defeat the toughest obstacles; the most powerful siege machine ever developed; and unshakable faith that God wills their victory. Nicaea blocks the road to Jerusalem. It must be taken. The time has come to March to Nicaea. "Deus lo vult! God wills it!" The book is fiction ... but the story is true.