1454. Constantinople has fallen. The old world is gone. But the war has only begun.
Months after the convoy battle that shattered their Company, John Grant and the survivors of the Ashborn cling to a fragile foothold on the Venetian island of Corfu. Their ship is scarred, their numbers are thin, and the Adriatic grows more dangerous by the day. Ottoman raiders strike the coast with uncanny precision as merchant ships vanish and villages burn. Someone, somewhere, is guiding the enemy.
The trail leads east across the narrow sea to Valona, a fortress port on the Albanian coast where corsairs gathers, slaves are traded, and the frontiers of empire blur into shadow.
To strike Valona would be madness. For Venice it would be deniable.
The raid ignites something far larger than a single night of violence. Pursued across the plains of Albania by Ottoman riders and drawn into the brutal frontier war surrounding the legendary Skanderbeg, the Company must fight not only for survival - but for the chance to reach the sea again. And beyond the hills, iron waits on the water.
Sea of Iron is the third novel in Stuart Lindsay's sweeping historical series, following the aftermath of The Last Light of Rome and Shadow of the Eagle. A tale of mercenaries, empire, and survival in the violent twilight of the medieval world.
Genre: Thriller
Months after the convoy battle that shattered their Company, John Grant and the survivors of the Ashborn cling to a fragile foothold on the Venetian island of Corfu. Their ship is scarred, their numbers are thin, and the Adriatic grows more dangerous by the day. Ottoman raiders strike the coast with uncanny precision as merchant ships vanish and villages burn. Someone, somewhere, is guiding the enemy.
The trail leads east across the narrow sea to Valona, a fortress port on the Albanian coast where corsairs gathers, slaves are traded, and the frontiers of empire blur into shadow.
To strike Valona would be madness. For Venice it would be deniable.
The raid ignites something far larger than a single night of violence. Pursued across the plains of Albania by Ottoman riders and drawn into the brutal frontier war surrounding the legendary Skanderbeg, the Company must fight not only for survival - but for the chance to reach the sea again. And beyond the hills, iron waits on the water.
Sea of Iron is the third novel in Stuart Lindsay's sweeping historical series, following the aftermath of The Last Light of Rome and Shadow of the Eagle. A tale of mercenaries, empire, and survival in the violent twilight of the medieval world.
Genre: Thriller