The King's Arrow is an adventure story full of color and romance, as resonant as a fable, told in clear, clean, swift prose.  A wonderful read.

                                                                             Dean Koontz                                                                                  
 

The King's Arrow

In a heart-pounding tale based on true events, Michael Cadnum reconstructs one of history’s most fascinating mysteries.

The year is 1100, in an England still in the shadow of the violent Norman conquest.

Simon, the eighteen year old son of a Norman nobleman and an English aristocrat, finds himself eager to find a life in a divided kingdom.

Offered the chance to accompany the king on a royal hunt, Simon jumps at the opportunity, sure that this adventure will be the key to an exciting future.

But the hunt goes fatally wrong, and in the aftermath Simon finds himself fleeing for his life, and forced to make choices that will forever alter his own expectations--and the hopes of the land he loves.
 
The King's Arrow illuminates one of the most stunning events in history--and one of its most enduring mysteries.