In the first two books of the Abelard Chronicles there are tantalizing hints as to Abelard’s origins but no full narrative on his life. How did he acquire his extraordinary skills as a warrior and, most of all, how did his mind end up working like your normal corporate honcho’s, only in its extreme versions – his solutions to vexatious situations usually mean a quick recourse to violence? Does he really come from the 14th Century? Is he a Manchurian candidate type – conditioned to look at problems through medieval lenses? Or has he just taken too literally much reading about the Hundred Years War?
Book three will find Abelard knee deep in the climate change quagmire – Arctic coal mines and generating stations in the hands of dodgy operators and Machiavellian governments who look to Abelard’s reputation as a ruthless manager who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. The bond between him and Felicity turns out to be not quite unbreakable as Abelard gives in to his natural medieval mentality and looks to feed his relentless self interest and fulfill his carnal needs.
Should be available by the end of 2013.
