{"product_id":"2940152507300","title":"A Suit of Swords","description":"\u003cp\u003eHollie forgot that he was supposed to be big and clumsy and slid through the jostling bodies as there was a shattering clatter of breaking pottery.\u003cbr\u003eLynten sprawling in the ashes with her cap askew and her tray spilled, and the laces of her bodices cut through, all her linen showing and a thin line of blood where a man's knife-point had scored through her shift and torn her poor flesh beneath, trying to cover her plump bare breasts with inadequate hands -\u003cbr\u003e\"Hey,\" Hollie said mildly, \"that's not nice. Don't do it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the man with the knife turned, thinking to give the gawky Englishman a second smile, and all his mates jeered and clapped, standing clear so that the hearth was as bare as an arena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmsterdam, Christmas 1626\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt has been a year of wonders for Lancashire Puritan's brat Holofernes Babbitt. Run away to the Low Countries at the age of eighteen to take up a career as a mercenary soldier in the Imperial Army, so far Hollie's luck has held. Or at least, he's still alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeless, friendless, and broke till the spring's campaigning starts again, it looks as if it may be a bleak Christmas for Hollie, after the promise of the spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut miracles happen, at the midwinter of the year...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA prequel to the bestselling Uncivil Wars series by the same author - one of a series of tales of Hollie Babbitt's wild young mercenary days in the Thirty Years' War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M J Logue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074236760304,"sku":"2940152507300","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152507300_p0.jpg?v=1764022195","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152507300","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}