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This is an absolutely hilarious novel. You will love it if you enjoyed Jimmy Breslin's "The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight." If Mel Brooks was alive he would make it into a movie. It is available for a movie screenplay.

Taking a train full of currency or capturing a Spanish treasure ship is nothing compared to the greatest theft in history—when the captain of a company of English archers and his men stole the entire treasury and religious relics of the world’s greatest and richest empire and escaped to Cornwall with chests and chests of gold coins and priceless relics. This is part of the exciting and action-packed story of how it happened and, in particular, what happened afterward to affect the people involved.

This is the fifth in the many fine stories in the on-going saga of the Company of Archers. Swords clash, arrows fly, and nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins. Harry Flashman would be pleased and those who are politically correct appalled. This somewhat witty and always action-packed saga of the archers is set in medieval England in the years following King Richard's crusade. William and the survivors and their new recruits successfully raid Tunis on their way back to the Holy Land from England. But instead of continuing on to the Holy Land ports to earn their coins and bread ...

Martin Archer has done it again. This is an exciting crime novel with a major twist - the hero is a tough and hardened criminal who tells you what he is thinking and doing as he tries to pull off a major heist and protect himself from retribution. This book is available for a screen or streaming adaptation. Inquire of the author at martinarcherv@gmail.com

The Captain's Men is the eleventh book in Martin Archer's action-packed story of a serf who rises to become the captain of a company of crusading English archers and what happens after he leads the company's survivors back to crude and brutal medieval England. Arrows fly, the Church is greedy, the barons move against Cornwall, and the archers fight when King John offers his barons the powers they seek in exchange for the priceless gold and silver religious relics the archers took from Constantinople when it was falling to the crusaders.

This is a collection of the three most recent books in Martin Archer's exciting saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain's rise as a military and merchant powerhouse. The action is non-stop as arrows fly, swords clash, women are bedded, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are blamed for things they did not do. Medieval times were a real life game of thrones because there was little else to do. Harry Flashman and certain of today's people would have prospered in them.

The Moors' control of the Mediterranean is growing, the Queen is trying to replace King Edward with his son so her lover can rule, the French are trying to take over what remains of Edward's lands in France, nobles and churchmen are being gulled out of their coins, and the Company of archers has been separately employed by the King, the Queen, the City of London, and the Templars who have become Cistercians to protect the crown prince. And then there was the interesting question of where the coins in the Tower ended up when Edward II fled with them when the Queen's army was closing in and ...

This is another of the great action-packed stories taken from the records of Cornwall’s Company of Archers. The mouse-eaten parchments on which this particular tale is based were found in a chest at the Bodleian Library during the 1887 renovation of its basement. It is the witty and almost true story, with a bit of embellishment that Harry Flashman would have enjoyed, about the early days of the Windsor family during the early days of Britain's rise as a great military power and the founding of the great merchant companies that came to have more power and commanded more allegiance than ...

A novella from the Company of Archers saga. Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and church men are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. "The Empire Has No Gold" is exciting novella in Martin Archer’s action-packed saga of Cornwall’s Company of Archers, a free company that began operating transports and shipping posts at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and witty read that sticks pins into the church and nobility along the way. The on-going ...

The year is 1219 in Constantinople and the recently widowed English-born empress of the great Latin Empire has been chosen by God to be her young son’s regent. She, in turn, has hired the Company of Archers to help defend her throne against the many kings and princes who are trying to replace her. This is the story of a real life game of thrones set in the early years when the first of the great merchant companies were being formed and Britain was just beginning to grow into a naval and commercial powerhouse that would punch far above its weight in the centuries that followed.

This is an all-new story from Martin Archer. It is his longest and best. The action, political incorrectness, and wide-eyed innocence, and ignorance is non-stop in this exciting medieval times novel. The company's archers sail for Constantinople to join the fight against the orthodox army attempting to re-establish the Byzantine Empire with the help of the Venetians. Richard arrives from England and takes his horse archers out to delay and harry the invaders.

William Warwick hat es weit gebracht, seit er vor wenigen Jahren als einfacher Streifenbeamter seinen Dienst bei der Londoner Polizei antrat. Mittlerweile ist er stolzer Vater von Zwillingen, und bei der Jagd auf Kunstfälscher und Drogenbarone hat er sich als fähiger Ermittler erwiesen. Doch nun lauert Unrecht in den eigenen Reihen: Der junge Detective Jerry Summers wird der Bestechlichkeit verdächtigt. Williams Team ermittelt undercover gegen die eigene Behörde – eine gefährliche Aufgabe, die höchstes Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert.

This is an updated version of Book Seventeen.. It is a good read. This is another great action-packed story in the saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain's rise to become a great military and commercial power. George Courtenay becomes the Company's commander and sails to the Holy Land as refugees flood into Acre as a result of the Pope breaking Saladin's truce.

William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner. London, 1988: Ganz Großbritannien ist im Royal-Fieber. Die Prinzessin der Herzen steht im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit wie kein Mitglied der Königsfamilie vor ihr. Ihre Sicherheit liegt in den Händen des Royal Protection Command – aber kann sich der Scotland Yard wirklich auf die Integrität der Personenschützer verlassen?

London: Die Metropolitan Police ruft eine neue Abteilung ins Leben, die sich ungelösten Fällen aus der Vergangenheit annehmen soll. Aber wie spürt man einen Mörder auf, dessen Spur bereits kalt ist? Genua: Der berüchtigte Millionär, Kunstsammler und verurteilter Betrüger Miles Faulkner wird für tot erklärt. Doch warum führt sein Anwalt die Geschäfte in seinem Namen fort? Atlantik: An Bord einer Luxusfähre mit Kurs auf New York kommt ein Mitglied einer einflussreichen Familiendynastie ums Leben.

William Warwick hat es weit gebracht, seit er vor wenigen Jahren als einfacher Streifenbeamter seinen Dienst bei der Londoner Polizei antrat. Mittlerweile ist er stolzer Vater von Zwillingen, und bei der Jagd auf Kunstfälscher und Drogenbarone hat er sich als fähiger Ermittler erwiesen. Doch nun lauert Unrecht in den eigenen Reihen: Der junge Detective Jerry Summers wird der Bestechlichkeit verdächtigt. Williams Team ermittelt undercover gegen die eigene Behörde – eine gefährliche Aufgabe, die höchstes Fingerspitzengefühl erfordert.

Im siebten Band der Saga um William Warwick zieht der internationale Bestsellerautor Jeffrey Archer wieder alle Register. William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner.

The Venetians attempt to prevent the Latin Empire's gold from reaching Rome to buy the prayers needed before God will allow the Holy Father to recognize the widowed Empress as her son's regent.

Die großen Saga um den idealistischen Ermittler William Warwick geht weiter. William Warwick, der aus bestem Hause kommt, ist von einem Wunsch erfüllt: In seinem Streben nach Gerechtigkeit möchte er die Karriereleiter des britischen Polizeiapparats durchlaufen – vom einfachen Streifenbeamten bis zum Commissioner. Im sechsten Teil der großen Saga von Bestsellerautor Jeffrey Archer sind William und sein Team erneut für das Royal Protection Command tätig, das die Sicherheit der Königin und ihrer Familie gewährleisten soll. Dabei kommen sie einem finsteren Plan zum Raub der Kronjuwelen auf die Spur.