"Cannons howled upon the muddy field with their sulphurous breath, and the marching pike formations of the Black Guard were torn asunder at the bouncing cannon balls. Smoke and heavy rain did together hinder the view of the foe across the field, but it did little to prevent the onslaught spat out of falconets and mortars that breathed fire under canvas canopies. Broken pikes and broken bodies already littered the slopes of earthworks, when flights of light horsemen rushed in retreat, past the soggy pikemen that marched through the quagmire. Captains and sergeants shouted orders and words of defiance as they brandished their glittering swords above their plumed morions. Encouraged by their example, the mercenary men of the Black Guard did not falter at the sight of their dead, but growled in response and marched on." It was the Renaissance, time of progress and discovery. It was the Reformation, time of conflict and war. On the eve of the Thirty Years War, dukes and bishops fought fiercely for land and power with the Church's supremacy hanging in the balance. Yet, in the battlefields of Europe, the fighting was done above all by the salt of the earth. Whether out of feudal loyalty, misguided faith or simply for the sake of filling an empty purse, peasants and mercenaries shed their blood for the sake of callous princes. Conflict and opportunity were but the same thing, and the dashing Henry Havoch would exploit the lords of Europe to his advancement, just as they would use him and his company of brigands to achieve their own greedy ends. These are the adventures of Captain Henry Havoch and his Mounted Musketeers. Immerse yourself in this epic historical fiction by Tom Noel-Morgan and go back to 16th century Europe, in the shoes of an upstart mercenary captain, who would not bend to the whims of the greedy lords of Europe, and who would live by his conscience and his own leave above all.