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    Valguard: Knight of Coins
    Valguard: Knight of Coins
    Valguard: Knight of Coins
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    Valguard: Knight of Coins

    By David N. Humphrey

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    A woman kidnapped by bandits. A mercenary sent alone to rescue her. Time is running out, the odds are against him and he must play a dangerous game to survive...

    High up in the fells, a mercenary called Valguard pits himself against a band of vicious thieves and seemingly impossible odds on a daring night-time raid on a remote, fortified stronghold to rescue a hostage. Meanwhile, his employer, The Duke, waits at the border for news of the mission. Will he outwit the ruthless group of over twenty bandits known as The Cutters? Or has his luck ran out and this time he has sent his friend to a very bloody death?

    The first Valguard book and prologue to the forthcoming novel ‘Ten of Swords’
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFunction9.com
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9781783016457
    Valguard: Knight of Coins

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      Valguard - David N. Humphrey

      VALGUARD: KNIGHT OF COINS 

      by David N Humphrey

      Valguard: Knight of Coins

      Copyright © David N Humphrey, 2014

      All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition

      that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      No part of this book, including electronic versions (ie PDF or eBook) may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the copyright holder, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in connection with a review for insertion in a newspaper, magazine, website or broadcast. Any infringement

      of the publisher’s rights will result in appropriate legal action.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      First published in 2014 by Function9.com

      Version 1.06

      www.knightofcoins.com

      @knightofcoins

      www.tenofswords.co.uk

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      For Helen

      xxx

      Chapters

      1 His Job is Death

      2 Captured

      3 Explosion

      4 Hostage

      5 The Waiting Soldiers

      6 The Duke of Pentland

      Chapter 1 

      His Job was Death

      He knew that before the sun came up he would have to kill everyone in that house. Hidden amongst the surrounding ferns and lying on his front, he watched and waited for movement, his eyes fixed intently on the remote farmstead sat on the dark moors.

      The breeze gently brushed the scroll-like fiddlehead tops around him, except for the fronds directly in front, which were held apart by his gloved hands. His eyes were adjusted to the clear, moonless night that was just peppered by stars but he could clearly see the fortified building of Mardale sat in a gully.

      As he watched, a dark figure in dirty armour carrying a ten foot long wooden pike at his shoulder casually walked around the perimeter once again.

      Farmhouses don’t normally have perimeter guards but in reality this was a stronghold and its inhabitants were definitely not farmers.

      Being only a few miles from the border meant the outpost had seen many raids in its lifetime and over the years it had been fortified. The windows were fewer and smaller than you’d expect and had almost been reduced to slits. To the right side was a square, heavily defended gatehouse arching over a wooden entrance with a thick perimeter wall of stone, wide enough to walk along, connecting each of the buildings in turn. It was modifications like these that the new owners had been looking for when they stole it.

      The guard was average height and build and had a lumpy nose and greasy, red face. His slightly oversized and dented sallet helmet together with a simple breastplate gave the appearance of a military man but that was undermined by the tatty clothes underneath and his boots, which were too worn and uncared for. A wide leather belt wound around him and had several pouches attached along with a dagger and a sword. A sash of red was tied around him too, probably to remind him which side he was on. Nothing on him seemed to match and he had the manner of someone who had been put on the perimeter because there wasn’t anyone else available.

      As the sentry disappeared round the corner, the watcher sprang up from the ground and leaving his green camouflaged sheet in the ferns, sprinted almost silently towards the blind side of the building. His legs whipped through the bracken before he crossed a

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