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| On Thursday 2nd August 1100, William II
of England, nicknamed 'Rufus the Red King', went hunting in
the New forest. A short while later he was dead, killed by an
arrow loosed by one of his own men. The established wisdom is
that Rufus was accidently killed. |
| Paul Doherty, however, by concentrating on both
the old and new evidence, demonstrates that the Red King's death
is highly suspect. Doherty depicts the Red king as a brave warrior,
an energetic ruthless king but irreligious with his own peculiar
views on the Church whilst his sex life was a hotbed of scandal
and gossip. The monastic chroniclers eepict Rufus as a 'ravenous
beast' about whose death sinister portents and sombre warnings
swirled. Monks had dreams. Satan himself was seen striding through
the forests of Medieval England. Walter Tirel, Lord of Poix,
has been cast as the villian of the piece. However, through
the eyes of Anselm, the great philosopher and secret admirer
of the Red king, Doherty, in this faction, develops a much more
chilling interpretation of the Red King's death on that warm
summer's evening. |
| Paul Doherty is an internationally renowned author.
Born in Middlesbrough, Paul Doherty studied history at Liverpool
and Oxford Universities, gaining his doctorate at Oxford. Paul
Doherty is now the headmaster of a very successful London school. |
| This is the second book in a new series published
by Greenwich Exchange. The first, The
Secret Life of Elizabeth I was published in April 2006. |
| Paul Dohetry's 'Hugh Corbett' and 'Brother Athelstan'
medieval mysteries are highly praised worldwide as are his other
historical works which include 'Isabella' and 'The Strange Death
of Edward II' and the 'Mysterious Death of Tutankhamun'. He
has also written a highly acclaimed series of Egyptian mysteries
including 'The Anubis Slaying' and 'The Mask of Ra'. |
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| Visit Paul Doherty's website |
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| www.paulcdoherty.com |
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