Monthly Archives: February 2015
A new review of The Sword and Scabbard appeared in the Greenfield Recorder on February 7, 2015 and can be read at http://www.recorder.com/home/15572052-95/book-review-the-sword-and-scabbard-by-allen-woods
I will be signing books at the Greenfield Public Library LeVanway Meeting Room (ground floor) on February 14, 2015 from 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.
“The Sword & Scabbard is a gripping, informative and wide-ranging historical drama set in the period leading up to the Boston Massacre. . . . it’s an eye-opening account of the currents and cross-currents as various factions and individuals in the city struggle for advantage, profit or simple survival. Allen Woods shows the arrogance of the British but also the mixture of motives behind even the most ardent of rebels and revolutionaries. He chooses an unconventional hero in Nicholas Gray, thief and smuggler and half-rebel, he knows 18th century Boston like the back of his hand, and brings to life and colour a range of intriguing characters. This is the start of a very promising series.”
Philip Gooden, author of the Nick Revill series of Shakespearian mysteries, the Cathedral murder mystery series set in Victorian England, an acclaimed nonfiction writer, and former Chair of Crime Writers Association, http://www.philipgooden.com/?page_id=24
