Dimensions
154 x 199 x 31mm
On a spring day at the Tower of London scaffold, a last request is granted . . . Jean Rombaud was the real-life, expert swordsman brought over from France by Henry VIII to behead Anne Boleyn.
In this exhilarating historical adventure Rombaud is given the fictional treatment as he swears a vow to the ill-fated queen to bury her six-fingered hand - symbol of her rumoured witchery - at a sacred crossroads. But Europe is ravaged by religious war, and the hand of this famous Protestant icon is so powerful a relic that another man will kill for it . . .
'The French Executioner' is a magical tale of courage, peril and the pursuit of power - and a gripping debut.
