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Tom Swan and the Head of St George
Volume Five: Rhodes
Christian Cameron
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TOM SWAN AND THE HEAD OF ST GEORGE PART FIVE
The Conqueror’s Ring
Also By Christian Cameron
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TOM SWAN AND THE HEAD OF ST GEORGE
PART FIVE
The Conqueror’s Ring
The coast of the Morea rolled by, an endless succession of small, excellent harbours cut into tawny rock by the ancient gods of the sea.
The Blessed Saint John cut the water like the slim predator she was, and her oarsmen grunted softly as they pulled the stroke. There was no wind, and after a winter’s voyage from Ancona, wherein the ship was forced to avoid the Venetian possessions in Dalmatia, no wind was taken as a favourable sign by every man aboard.
Thomas Swan, Donat of the Order of Saint John, stood in his short frowzy brown gown by the tiller of the galley and listened to his mentor in all things nautical. A ...
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