Company Of Spears

COMPANY

OF SPEARS

ALLAN MALLINSON

Also Allan Mallison

AND FEATURING MATTHEW HERVEY

A CLOSE RUN THING

1815: introducing Matthew Hervey, fighting for King and country

at the Battle of Waterloo.

‘I have never read a more enthralling account of a battle … This is

the first in a series of Matthew Hervey adventures. The next can’t

come soon enough for me’

DAILY MAIL

THE NIZAM’S DAUGHTERS

1816: in India Matthew Hervey fights to prevent bloody civil war.

‘Captain Hervey of the 6th Light Dragoons and ADC to the Duke

of Wellington is back in the saddle … He is as fascinating on

horseback as Jack Aubrey is on the quarterdeck’

THE TIMES

A REGIMENTAL AFFAIR

1817: Matthew Hervey faces renegades at home and in North America.

A riveting tale of heroism, derring-do and enormous resource in the

face of overwhelming adversity’

BIRMINGHAM POST

A CALL TO ARMS

1819: Matthew Hervey races to confront Burmese rebels massing in the jungle.

‘Hervey continues to grow in stature as an engaging and credible

character, while Mallinson himself continues to delight’

OBSERVER

THE SABRE’S EDGE

1824: in India Matthew Hervey lays siege to the fortress of Bhurtpore.

‘Splendid… the tale is as historically stimulating

as it is stirringly exciting’

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

RUMOURS OF WAR

1826: while Matthew Hervey prepares for civil war in Portugal, he

remembers the Retreat to Corunna twenty years previously.

‘I enjoyed the adventure immensely … as compelling, vivid and

plausible as any war novel I’ve ever read’

ANDREW ROBERTS, DAILY TELEGRAPH

AN ACT OF COURAGE

1826: a prisoner of the Spanish, Matthew Hervey relives the blood

and carnage of the Siege of Badajoz.

‘Concentrating on the battle of Talavera and the investment of

Badajoz, both sparklingly described, [Mallinson]plays to his

undoubted strengths’

OBSERVER

COMPANY OF SPEARS

1827: on the plains of South Africa, Matthew Hervey

confronts the savage Zulu.

A damn fine rip-roaring read’

LITERARY REVIEW

FOREWORD