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The Time of Terror
The Saxon Chronicles
by Seth Hunter
by Bernard Cornwell
U.K. Trade Paperback • $17.95
1. The Last Kingdom
1793: The French have killed their king and “The Terror” has begun. As revolutionary France declares war on England, Brig-sloop Commander Nathan Peake is given a vital mission: to destroy the French economy by smuggling millions of French banknotes across the Channel. His operation leads him to the Empire of the Dead—a labyrinth of catacombs under Paris where bodies are buried, secrets hidden and plots hatched. With a narrow escape, he joins the British squadrons in the Atlantic in the first thunderous battle between the rival navies. “A well-researched novel that draws you into the dangers of life in France post-1789 . . . a highly compelling read.”
U.S. Trade Paperback • $14.95 AD 866: A young Saxon boy, Uhtred, is captured by Vikings in the same battle that leaves his father dead. Raised by his captors to embrace the Viking ways of war, Uhtred grapples with divided loyalties as he participates with his foster father in raids upon the English coast.
2. The Pale Horseman U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95 Uhtred is cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He must make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him.
—Historical Novels Review
3. Lords of the North
Ship of Rome
U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95
by John Stack
Uhtred helps free Guthred, an enslaved Dane, who proclaims himself King of Northumbria, and Uhtred is caught up in Guthred’s machinations. A shocking betrayal topples Uhtred from renown warrior to galley slave, yet he still struggles against the hand of Fate.
U.K. Hardcover • $25.95 As the Roman and Carthaginian empires clash, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas. Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome’s small, coastal fleet, must unite with Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship. They face a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before. The enemy are first class, experienced and determined to control the seas. Can Atticus and the fledgling Roman navy, staffed with inexperienced sailors and unwilling legionaries, outwit and outfight their opponents?
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“Beautifully crafted story-telling, complete with splendid set-piece battles and relentless derring-do, so gripping that it rarely stops to catch a breath. “ —Daily Mail
4. Sword Song U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95 Uhtred has pledged to serve King Alfred by commanding the defensive frontier forts. When the Vikings capture and occupy London, threatening Alfred’s border and his control of the Thames River port, Uhtred must fight against those who were once his closest brothers.
4-book set: $45.95 (a $56.80 retail value)
Free Book with orders of $100 or more— See page three for details.
Free U.S. shipping on orders over $85! Paperback, regularly $16.95, offer good through April 30th, 2009.
Click on the blue book boxes & links to visit www.McBooks.com
Call Toll-Free 1-888-266-5711 Or, Order Online Anytime www.mcbooks.com
The Alatriste Novels
The Barker & Llewelyn Novels
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
by Will Thomas
Diego Alatriste is a soldier of fortune during the bloody days of Spain’s Inquisition and conquest of the New World. Together with his young page, Inigo Balboa, Alatriste must negotiate the brutal battlefields and treacherous political intrigues of 17thcentury Spain—and live to collect his payment. Rich in vivid historical detail and sardonic observations, these are thrilling international best sellers.
All U.S. Trade Paperbacks • $14.00 each
“Historical authenticity, crisp prose, complex characters, exotic settings and plenty of sanguinary action.” —Publishers Weekly
1. Some Danger Involved
“Thomas places his cast of likable even heroic characters within a complex political minefield and then waits for the explosion. Intense and insightful.” —Booklist
U.S. Trade Paperback $14.00
The murder of a scholar in Victorian London’s Jewish ghetto brings detective Cyrus Barker on the case. He chooses Thomas Llewelyn, a downtrodden young man with a murky past, as his assistant. As they close in on the killer, Llewelyn is drawn deeper into Barker’s vigilante world of back alleys and brutal criminals.
Purity of Blood
2. To Kingdom Come
U.S. Trade Paperback $14.00
When a bomb explodes in Scotland Yard, Irish dissidents are suspected. Barker and Llewelyn go under cover to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Posing as bomb-makers they are recruited by the group for the ultimate plan: to bring London to its knees and end the monarchy forever.
Captain Alatriste
The Sun Over Breda U.S. Trade Paperback $15.00
The King’s Gold U.S. Hardcover
$24.95
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
3. The Limehouse Text Barker and Llewelyn discover a stolen Chinese book of forbidden lethal martial arts techniques. Politics between Britain and China are already unstable, and the two detectives must safeguard the book from a killer intent on gaining the secret knowledge.
4. The Hellfire Conspiracy
U.S. Hardcover • $26.00 The Inquisition forced many Jews to flee Spain. The toughest took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. They plundered the Spanish fleet and formed alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. This is the exciting nonfiction saga of a hidden chapter in Jewish history and of the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery. “Entertaining and surprising . . . Kritzler captures the spirit of that violent, lawless epoch and combines it with an interesting —Booklist ethnic perspective.”
A distraught guardsman consults Barker and Llewelyn on the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter. The sleuths suspect a serial killer. They must infiltrate London’s most powerful secret society to find out, while Scotland Yard hampers the investigation in a cover-up of upper-class depravities.
5. The Black Hand An Italian assassin’s body is found floating in a barrel in the East End, and Barker and Llewelyn are asked to investigate. Soon corpses appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the bloody vendettas of rival Italian syndicates.
5-book set: $55.95 (a $70.00 retail value)
Free Book with orders of $100 or more— See page three for details.
Free U.S. shipping on orders over $85! McBooks Press, Inc, ID Booth Bldg, 520 N Meadow St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Click on the blue book boxes & links to visit www.McBooks.com
Call Toll-Free 1-888-266-5711 Or, Order Online Anytime www.mcbooks.com
Two Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures
Bargain Nonfiction
by Dewie Lambdin
Quantities are limited, so order today.
“Fast-moving at sea, nicely lewd ashore, a hugely likeable hero, a huge cast of sharply drawn supporting characters; there’s nothing missing. Wonderful stuff.” —Kirkus Reviews
Nelson the Admiral
Just Published in Hardcover!
Book 15
The Baltic Gambit
by Colin White Hardcover • List price $27.95 Now $12.95 Recent discoveries of Horatio Nelson’s personal papers have transformed our understanding of him. White presents new narratives of all three of Nelson’s great battles. He shows how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation.
U.S. Hardcover • $25.95 Alan Lewrie is on the beach on half-pay —and up to no good. A drunken brawl precedes his summons to Admiralty and the command of a frigate as the fleet gathers to face down the League of the North headed by the mad Tsar Paul. Lewrie must take his ship into the Baltic in the dead of winter to scout the enemy fleets. Saddled with a pair of Russian noblemen as a last-minute peace delegation, he suspects they have another mission since they are sent by the wily spy-master Zachariah Twigg. “You could get addicted to this series. Easily.” —The New York Times Book Review Now in Paperback!
Book 14
Troubled Waters U.S. Trade Paperback • $15.95 1800: Captain Alan Lewrie, fresh from victory in the South Atlantic, returns to England as a hero and takes charge of HMS Savage, the largest and best-armed frigate he’s ever commanded. But a Jamaica court has tried him in absentia and sentenced him to hang for the earlier theft of black slaves to man his old ship, Proteus. A crime, or was it liberation, as his London barrister argues? The vengeful slave owner has come to London to seek Lewrie’s end . . . with or without the majesty of the Law!
A Call to the Sea Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution by Claude Berube & John Rodgaard Trade Paperback • List price $22.95 Now $9.95 Charles Stewart cemented his reputation as commander of the U.S. Navy’s most powerful frigate, the USS Constitution. Undefeated in battle, including defeating the British warships Cyane and Levant simultaneously, both ship and captain came to be known as “Old Ironsides.”
War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850 by Andrew Lambert Trade Paperback • List price $17.95 Now $8.95 An illustrated survey of two centuries of naval dominance by the ship of the line. Looks at the geopolitical framework for the construction and maintenance of fleets, of strategies for their operation, and, ultimately, of their tactics in battle. Twenty maps and schematics of key battles.
Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851
by Peter Padfield Trade Paperback • List price $17.95 Now $8.95 Covering the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, with some attention on the period between Waterloo and the rise of the transatlantic steamer trade, this volume traces Britain’s rise to naval power. Padfield looks at why England grew stronger while France and Spain weakened. He especially addresses naval tactics.
Free Book with orders of $100 or more: Mr Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat
Set sail with Jack Easy, the original nautical hero who inspired Forester, O’Brian and many others. Marryat was an actual 19thcentury naval hero who served under Lord Cochrane and wrote this classic fictionalized account of his adventures.
Paperback, regularly $16.95, offer good through April 30th, 2009.
Call Toll-Free 1-888-266-5711 Or, Order Online Anytime www.mcbooks.com
The Time of Terror
The Saxon Chronicles
by Seth Hunter
by Bernard Cornwell
U.K. Trade Paperback • $17.95
1. The Last Kingdom
1793: The French have killed their king and “The Terror” has begun. As revolutionary France declares war on England, Brig-sloop Commander Nathan Peake is given a vital mission: to destroy the French economy by smuggling millions of French banknotes across the Channel. His operation leads him to the Empire of the Dead—a labyrinth of catacombs under Paris where bodies are buried, secrets hidden and plots hatched. With a narrow escape, he joins the British squadrons in the Atlantic in the first thunderous battle between the rival navies. “A well-researched novel that draws you into the dangers of life in France post-1789 . . . a highly compelling read.”
U.S. Trade Paperback • $14.95 AD 866: A young Saxon boy, Uhtred, is captured by Vikings in the same battle that leaves his father dead. Raised by his captors to embrace the Viking ways of war, Uhtred grapples with divided loyalties as he participates with his foster father in raids upon the English coast.
2. The Pale Horseman U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95 Uhtred is cheated of his inheritance and adrift in a world of fire, sword, and treachery. He must make a choice: whether to fight for the Vikings, who raised him, or for King Alfred the Great of Wessex, who dislikes him.
—Historical Novels Review
3. Lords of the North
Ship of Rome
U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95
by John Stack
Uhtred helps free Guthred, an enslaved Dane, who proclaims himself King of Northumbria, and Uhtred is caught up in Guthred’s machinations. A shocking betrayal topples Uhtred from renown warrior to galley slave, yet he still struggles against the hand of Fate.
U.K. Hardcover • $25.95 As the Roman and Carthaginian empires clash, the battle for sovereignty takes place on the high seas. Atticus, captain of one of the ships of Rome’s small, coastal fleet, must unite with Septimus, legionary commander, reluctantly ordered aboard ship. They face a hostile fleet, larger, far more skilful and more powerful than any Atticus has encountered before. The enemy are first class, experienced and determined to control the seas. Can Atticus and the fledgling Roman navy, staffed with inexperienced sailors and unwilling legionaries, outwit and outfight their opponents?
Sign up for Quarterdeck Our free bi-monthly historical fiction e-newsletter. Subscribe today at www.mcbooks.com Click on “newsletter” in horizontal blue menu bar.
“Beautifully crafted story-telling, complete with splendid set-piece battles and relentless derring-do, so gripping that it rarely stops to catch a breath. “ —Daily Mail
4. Sword Song U.S. Trade Paperback • $13.95 Uhtred has pledged to serve King Alfred by commanding the defensive frontier forts. When the Vikings capture and occupy London, threatening Alfred’s border and his control of the Thames River port, Uhtred must fight against those who were once his closest brothers.
4-book set: $45.95 (a $56.80 retail value)
Free Book with orders of $100 or more— See page three for details.
Free U.S. shipping on orders over $85! Paperback, regularly $16.95, offer good through April 30th, 2009.
Click on the blue book boxes & links to visit www.McBooks.com
Call Toll-Free 1-888-266-5711 Or, Order Online Anytime www.mcbooks.com
The Alatriste Novels
The Barker & Llewelyn Novels
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
by Will Thomas
Diego Alatriste is a soldier of fortune during the bloody days of Spain’s Inquisition and conquest of the New World. Together with his young page, Inigo Balboa, Alatriste must negotiate the brutal battlefields and treacherous political intrigues of 17thcentury Spain—and live to collect his payment. Rich in vivid historical detail and sardonic observations, these are thrilling international best sellers.
All U.S. Trade Paperbacks • $14.00 each
“Historical authenticity, crisp prose, complex characters, exotic settings and plenty of sanguinary action.” —Publishers Weekly
1. Some Danger Involved
“Thomas places his cast of likable even heroic characters within a complex political minefield and then waits for the explosion. Intense and insightful.” —Booklist
U.S. Trade Paperback $14.00
The murder of a scholar in Victorian London’s Jewish ghetto brings detective Cyrus Barker on the case. He chooses Thomas Llewelyn, a downtrodden young man with a murky past, as his assistant. As they close in on the killer, Llewelyn is drawn deeper into Barker’s vigilante world of back alleys and brutal criminals.
Purity of Blood
2. To Kingdom Come
U.S. Trade Paperback $14.00
When a bomb explodes in Scotland Yard, Irish dissidents are suspected. Barker and Llewelyn go under cover to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Posing as bomb-makers they are recruited by the group for the ultimate plan: to bring London to its knees and end the monarchy forever.
Captain Alatriste
The Sun Over Breda U.S. Trade Paperback $15.00
The King’s Gold U.S. Hardcover
$24.95
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean by Edward Kritzler
3. The Limehouse Text Barker and Llewelyn discover a stolen Chinese book of forbidden lethal martial arts techniques. Politics between Britain and China are already unstable, and the two detectives must safeguard the book from a killer intent on gaining the secret knowledge.
4. The Hellfire Conspiracy
U.S. Hardcover • $26.00 The Inquisition forced many Jews to flee Spain. The toughest took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. They plundered the Spanish fleet and formed alliances with other European powers to ensure the safety of Jews living in hiding. This is the exciting nonfiction saga of a hidden chapter in Jewish history and of the cruelty, terror, and greed that flourished during the Age of Discovery. “Entertaining and surprising . . . Kritzler captures the spirit of that violent, lawless epoch and combines it with an interesting —Booklist ethnic perspective.”
A distraught guardsman consults Barker and Llewelyn on the disappearance of his 12-year-old daughter. The sleuths suspect a serial killer. They must infiltrate London’s most powerful secret society to find out, while Scotland Yard hampers the investigation in a cover-up of upper-class depravities.
5. The Black Hand An Italian assassin’s body is found floating in a barrel in the East End, and Barker and Llewelyn are asked to investigate. Soon corpses appear all over London, each accompanied by a Mafia Black Hand note. As Barker and Llewelyn dig deeper, they become entangled in the bloody vendettas of rival Italian syndicates.
5-book set: $55.95 (a $70.00 retail value)
Free Book with orders of $100 or more— See page three for details.
Free U.S. shipping on orders over $85! McBooks Press, Inc, ID Booth Bldg, 520 N Meadow St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Click on the blue book boxes & links to visit www.McBooks.com
Call Toll-Free 1-888-266-5711 Or, Order Online Anytime www.mcbooks.com
Two Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures
Bargain Nonfiction
by Dewie Lambdin
Quantities are limited, so order today.
“Fast-moving at sea, nicely lewd ashore, a hugely likeable hero, a huge cast of sharply drawn supporting characters; there’s nothing missing. Wonderful stuff.” —Kirkus Reviews
Nelson the Admiral
Just Published in Hardcover!
Book 15
The Baltic Gambit
by Colin White Hardcover • List price $27.95 Now $12.95 Recent discoveries of Horatio Nelson’s personal papers have transformed our understanding of him. White presents new narratives of all three of Nelson’s great battles. He shows how the British triumph at Trafalgar was the culmination of years of thought and experimentation.
U.S. Hardcover • $25.95 Alan Lewrie is on the beach on half-pay —and up to no good. A drunken brawl precedes his summons to Admiralty and the command of a frigate as the fleet gathers to face down the League of the North headed by the mad Tsar Paul. Lewrie must take his ship into the Baltic in the dead of winter to scout the enemy fleets. Saddled with a pair of Russian noblemen as a last-minute peace delegation, he suspects they have another mission since they are sent by the wily spy-master Zachariah Twigg. “You could get addicted to this series. Easily.” —The New York Times Book Review Now in Paperback!
Book 14
Troubled Waters U.S. Trade Paperback • $15.95 1800: Captain Alan Lewrie, fresh from victory in the South Atlantic, returns to England as a hero and takes charge of HMS Savage, the largest and best-armed frigate he’s ever commanded. But a Jamaica court has tried him in absentia and sentenced him to hang for the earlier theft of black slaves to man his old ship, Proteus. A crime, or was it liberation, as his London barrister argues? The vengeful slave owner has come to London to seek Lewrie’s end . . . with or without the majesty of the Law!
A Call to the Sea Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution by Claude Berube & John Rodgaard Trade Paperback • List price $22.95 Now $9.95 Charles Stewart cemented his reputation as commander of the U.S. Navy’s most powerful frigate, the USS Constitution. Undefeated in battle, including defeating the British warships Cyane and Levant simultaneously, both ship and captain came to be known as “Old Ironsides.”
War at Sea in the Age of Sail 1650-1850 by Andrew Lambert Trade Paperback • List price $17.95 Now $8.95 An illustrated survey of two centuries of naval dominance by the ship of the line. Looks at the geopolitical framework for the construction and maintenance of fleets, of strategies for their operation, and, ultimately, of their tactics in battle. Twenty maps and schematics of key battles.
Maritime Power and the Struggle for Freedom Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World 1788-1851
by Peter Padfield Trade Paperback • List price $17.95 Now $8.95 Covering the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, with some attention on the period between Waterloo and the rise of the transatlantic steamer trade, this volume traces Britain’s rise to naval power. Padfield looks at why England grew stronger while France and Spain weakened. He especially addresses naval tactics.
Free Book with orders of $100 or more: Mr Midshipman Easy by Captain Frederick Marryat
Set sail with Jack Easy, the original nautical hero who inspired Forester, O’Brian and many others. Marryat was an actual 19thcentury naval hero who served under Lord Cochrane and wrote this classic fictionalized account of his adventures.
Paperback, regularly $16.95, offer good through April 30th, 2009.
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