Amidst the chaos of the Thirty Years’ War, Jack Fiskardo embarks upon a quest that will carry him inexorably from France to Amsterdam and then onto the battlefields of Germany. As he grows to manhood will he be able to unravel the mystery of his father’s death? Or will his father’s killers find him first? […]
Nördlingen, a town where history is past and present
The Thirty Years’ War (1618–48) was a European conflict so destructive and so complex that setting a novel during the period must be a challenge. For JC Harvey, whose The Silver Wolf, the first in her Fiskardo’s War trilogy, takes place in the middle of that chaos, a good place to start is a small […]
The Silver Wolf by JC Harvey
Amidst the chaos of the Thirty Years’ War, Jack Fiskardo embarks upon a quest that will carry him inexorably from France to Amsterdam and then onto the battlefields of Germany. As he grows to manhood will he be able to unravel the mystery of his father’s death? Or will his father’s killers find him first? […]