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    All Mouth and Codpiece: Ancient Pistol Saga, #2
    All Wind and Pistol: Ancient Pistol Saga, #1
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    Ancient Pistol Saga Series

    By Roger Butters

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    About this series

    England, 1397. Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, is in a quandary. For a rumour have come to his ears that the Duke of Gloucester, whom in accordance with the King's orders he arranged to be put to death in Calais Castle, is alive and well and stirring up trouble on the Continent. He therefore needs the assistance of a first-class secret agent to make unobtrusive enquiry and take appropriate action.

    Instead Mowbray is obliged to instruct Ancient Pistol, a boastful, cowardly, lecherous drunk. Ranged against him are a multitude of international conspirators whose cunning and villainy defy description. His friends, including the dissolute Ned Poins and temperamentally unstable Doll Tearsheet, are almost as useless as our hero himself. Indeed his most loyal and useful ally is a mongrel dog known as Master Sakkers!

    But one essential quality Pistol possesses, sufficient to outweigh all his shortcomings. Namely, the most outrageous luck. Aided by this he endures not only his usual fate of being caught in numerous lecherous escapades, but survives a couple of attempts on his life, and even an appearance on the scaffold. Over-confident and lacking in insight as ever, once more Pistol blunders his way to victory, and succeeds where many a better man would have failed. 

    Ancient Pistol Saga, vol 2

    Approx 66,000 words

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoger Butters
    Release dateJan 12, 2020
    All Mouth and Codpiece: Ancient Pistol Saga, #2
    All Wind and Pistol: Ancient Pistol Saga, #1

    Titles in the series (2)

    • 1

      All Wind and Pistol: Ancient Pistol Saga, #1
      All Wind and Pistol: Ancient Pistol Saga, #1

      All Wind and Pistol: Ancient Pistol Saga, #1

      Roger Butters
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      Through the perilous world of early Renaissance espionage strides the intrepid figure of Ancient Pistol, secret agent. Massively confident, never at a loss for an insult or anachronistic quotation from the Bard, Shakespeare's vainglorious soldier has been entrusted by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, with a cloak-and-dagger mission of the utmost delicacy, involving the fate of the mightiest in the land. Pistol would not be everyone's choice for such a task, being a loudmouthed, cowardly, drunken fathead. His efficiency is further impaired not only by the necessity to avoid his creditors, their lawyers, and the Army he has defrauded, but a tempestuous relationship with Doll Tearsheet – not to mention sundry other ladies – and the inept assistance of Sir John Falstaff. Yet whether brawling in the Boar's Head, discovered in flagrante by a murderous husband, or enduring the indignity of the stocks or the dunghill, Pistol is indestructible. Before the colossal ineptitude of his blundering, the Machiavellian schemes of the mighty crumble and fall. Battered, humiliated, disgraced but undefeated, Pistol triumphs in the end. Volume 1 of Pistol Sagas. Approx. 68,000 words

      Through the perilous world of early Renaissance espionage strides the intrepid figure of Ancient Pistol, secret agent. Massively confident, never at a loss for an insult or anachronistic quotation from the Bard, Shakespeare's vainglorious soldier has been entrusted by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, with a cloak-and-dagger mission of the utmost delicacy, involving the fate of the mightiest in the land. Pistol would not be everyone's choice for such a task, being a loudmouthed, cowardly, drunken fathead. His efficiency is further impaired not only by the necessity to avoid his creditors, their lawyers, and the Army he has defrauded, but a tempestuous relationship with Doll Tearsheet – not to mention sundry other ladies – and the inept assistance of Sir John Falstaff. Yet whether brawling in the Boar's Head, discovered in flagrante by a murderous husband, or enduring the indignity of the stocks or the dunghill, Pistol is indestructible. Before the colossal ineptitude of his blundering, the Machiavellian schemes of the mighty crumble and fall. Battered, humiliated, disgraced but undefeated, Pistol triumphs in the end. Volume 1 of Pistol Sagas. Approx. 68,000 words

    • 2

      All Mouth and Codpiece: Ancient Pistol Saga, #2
      All Mouth and Codpiece: Ancient Pistol Saga, #2

      All Mouth and Codpiece: Ancient Pistol Saga, #2

      Roger Butters
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      England, 1397. Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, is in a quandary. For a rumour have come to his ears that the Duke of Gloucester, whom in accordance with the King's orders he arranged to be put to death in Calais Castle, is alive and well and stirring up trouble on the Continent. He therefore needs the assistance of a first-class secret agent to make unobtrusive enquiry and take appropriate action. Instead Mowbray is obliged to instruct Ancient Pistol, a boastful, cowardly, lecherous drunk. Ranged against him are a multitude of international conspirators whose cunning and villainy defy description. His friends, including the dissolute Ned Poins and temperamentally unstable Doll Tearsheet, are almost as useless as our hero himself. Indeed his most loyal and useful ally is a mongrel dog known as Master Sakkers! But one essential quality Pistol possesses, sufficient to outweigh all his shortcomings. Namely, the most outrageous luck. Aided by this he endures not only his usual fate of being caught in numerous lecherous escapades, but survives a couple of attempts on his life, and even an appearance on the scaffold. Over-confident and lacking in insight as ever, once more Pistol blunders his way to victory, and succeeds where many a better man would have failed.  Ancient Pistol Saga, vol 2 Approx 66,000 words

      England, 1397. Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, is in a quandary. For a rumour have come to his ears that the Duke of Gloucester, whom in accordance with the King's orders he arranged to be put to death in Calais Castle, is alive and well and stirring up trouble on the Continent. He therefore needs the assistance of a first-class secret agent to make unobtrusive enquiry and take appropriate action. Instead Mowbray is obliged to instruct Ancient Pistol, a boastful, cowardly, lecherous drunk. Ranged against him are a multitude of international conspirators whose cunning and villainy defy description. His friends, including the dissolute Ned Poins and temperamentally unstable Doll Tearsheet, are almost as useless as our hero himself. Indeed his most loyal and useful ally is a mongrel dog known as Master Sakkers! But one essential quality Pistol possesses, sufficient to outweigh all his shortcomings. Namely, the most outrageous luck. Aided by this he endures not only his usual fate of being caught in numerous lecherous escapades, but survives a couple of attempts on his life, and even an appearance on the scaffold. Over-confident and lacking in insight as ever, once more Pistol blunders his way to victory, and succeeds where many a better man would have failed.  Ancient Pistol Saga, vol 2 Approx 66,000 words

    Author

    Roger Butters

    Roger Butters is a native of Stafford, where he still lives. At various times, he has tried his hand at aviation, owning racehorses, and Shotokan Karate. Altogether he has published over a dozen novels.

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