ASIN: B00GC4W2O0
Publisher: Ayokite Publishing
Pages: 264
Leadership is the ability to persuade followers to die to secure the leader's wealth and power.Roger Martel rises from slavery to become an elite knight for the Carolingian Empire and along the way, loses faith in lairds and kings. In 816 AD, Charlemagne is two-years dead, and a disastrous expedition against the Danes shipwrecks Roger on the eastern coast of England. Pursued by a local laird for killing three of his war band knights, Roger searches west for his friend who was carried aloft by a mysterious man in a seemingly impossible device: a hot air balloon. After finding his friend, a threat from Viking invaders elevates Roger to leadership. He tells himself that he assumes command only to defend his friends, not to become a great laird. However, power, like wealth, is seductive. The more we have, the more we want.Marked by Thor is a Rogue Knight alternate history set ...
