Charles Keating

Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard, who walks the rugged coastline to contemplate his wife's senseless murder, discovers the body of a young man at the base of a cliff and becomes a witness and suspect in the case instead of an investigator.

A fugitive English forester and mercenary defender saves young novitiate Melisande and, defending himself from a vengeance-seeking rapist priest and Melisande's father, finds himself slogging his way to Agincourt as an archer in King Henry V's army.