Blood Ties

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. x, 389. Illustrated wraps.

Author's second novel and follow-up volume in 'The French Executioner' series. Jean Rombaud, the French executioner of the first novel, wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, fights in the seemingly never-ending siege of Siena. Meanwhile, Gianni Rombaud has forsaken everything his father stands for and now kills heathen for the Inquisition in Rome. Then he is summoned by Cardinal Carafa himself.

A sometime actor and playwright, Humphreys has previously starred in West End theatre productions and TV series such as The Bill, Highlander, and A.D. "Falling somewhere between the historical novels of Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith, C.C. Humphreys has fashioned a rollicking good yarn that keeps the pages turning from start to finish." –Irish Examiner