Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade: Part Two

Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade #2

by Christian Cameron

Following on from Tom Swan and the Head of St George, Tom Swan and the Siege of Belgrade is the next instalment of the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Fifteenth Century Europe. Tom Swan is 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.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 13, 2014

About the author

Aka Miles Cameron. Also publishes as Gordon Kent with his father Kenneth M. Cameron.

Christian Cameron was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1962. He grew up in Rockport, Massachusetts, Iowa City, Iowa,Christian Cameron and Rochester, New York, where he attended McQuaid Jesuit High School and later graduated from the University of Rochester with a degree in history.

After the longest undergraduate degree on record (1980-87), he joined the United States Navy, where he served as an intelligence officer and as a backseater in S-3 Vikings in the First Gulf War, in Somalia, and elsewhere. After a dozen years of service, he became a full time writer in 2000. He lives in Toronto (that’s Ontario, in Canada) with his wife Sarah and their daughter Beatrice, currently age four. And a half.

Reviews

[Edward Gwynne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Trying to read these as slowly as possible. Trying and failing. I would recommend Tom Swan to just about everyone.

[Bart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actual rating: 4.00

[Liviu · Rating 5 out of 5]

direct sequel to #7 taking place in Rimini where brutal condotierre Malatesta holds sway while Tom Swan has to navigate very treacherous waters as an envoy of Bessarion, recruiter of troops from Malatesta's superfluous ones, while trying to get back the ring that was stolen in the previous book and of course get back at the beautiful and strong willed Demoiselle Iso who used Tom so handily in the earlier volume - of course if on one hand he can resist her and on the other if her father doesn't object as now Tom is fully in his power, while it is still not clear what Malatesta could object to, Tom resuming his affair with Iso, or Tom not resuming his affair with Iso or both; trickery, deception and overall very treacherous waters to navigate for our hero

Overall same general comments as for #7 (see below but essentially that the Italian installments are the best so far and this is no exception) and excellent stuff, the only complaint is that Belgrade is still kind of far and a change of scenery may do the hero good...

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[Kevin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love his stuff

[Daniel Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Underhand escapades

Swan survives Rimini and the machinations of the wolf and his daughter iso as he becomes the centre of converging plots

[Štěpán · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another town in Italy survived! Another girl in Tom's bed causes more trouble than pleasure and a super fun adventure set in the 1450s continues. On to the Venice!

[Pedro Marroquín · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy buen capítulo en el que el protagonista de la serie tiene que ir al castillo de Malatesta (condottiere salvajemente violento) y quitarle tropas, seguir teniendo seco con su hija, reclutar a un espía, conseguir un anillo que perdió en el anterior episodio; y todo ello sin perder la vida, a pesar de las muchas trampas que le ponen. Muy entretenidas aventuras, y a leer el tercero ya. A

[Arun · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot stop reading the series.

[Nicholas Berndt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very entertaining.

Each of these stories is almost impossible to put down. So very entertaining. The series and supporting cast is diverse and travels to often unexplored areas of the world at this time. Can’t wait to start the next section tonight and see how Swan does in Venice.

[Austin Greenwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

More adventure, as always

The swan story continues in fantastic fashion. This chapter contained a bit more intrigue than violence, but it’s simply another chapter in a fantastic epic!

[Barry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Will Tom Swan survive Rimini and Malatesta?