# Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One: Castillon

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- Book: [Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One: Castillon](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-kent/tom-swan-and-the-head-of-st-george-part-one-castillon) ([Tom Swan and the Head of St George Part One: Castillon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-kent/tom-swan-and-the-head-of-st-george-part-one-castillon.md))
- Authors: [Gordon Kent](https://www.bookquiver.com/gordon-kent)
- Publisher: Orion
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0912-721-5
- Published: 2012-08-23
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Castillon: Part One of a fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century. 1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who have taken him captive. He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to. Having used his wits to escape execution, he begins a series of adventures that take him to street duels in Italy, meetings with remarkable men - from Leonardo Da Vinci to Vlad Dracula - and from the intrigues of the War of the Roses to the fall of Constantinople.