Best of Men

''If the reading of the stars is correct, His Majesty has only a short time to live. And he will die through violence''

1642: Laurence Beaumont has just returned to England after six long years in the European Wars. Fleeing home to escape the responsibilities of his noble birthright, he served as both mercenary and spy, and ended up a cardsharp in a Dutch brothel. The atrocities he witnessed abroad...