Sebastien de Castell''s Traitor''s Blade was compared to the high adventure tale of Dumas'' Three Musketeers. Now in Greatcoat''s Lament de Castell continues this dark swashbuckling tale of idealism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers'' corruption.
Beginning a few days after The horrifying murder of a duke and his family sends Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats in a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.