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“I give my testimony according to the lights I follow.”
The Chronicles of Insuldom
A Return to Epic High Fantasy in Three Volumes. Out Now!
A Welcome Return to Classic High Fantasy
“Great Originality and Imagination”
Rosie Pierce, Curtis Brown, one of the world’s leading literary agencies.
Death
There is no magic. The ancient warrior has killed every man, woman, and child who could wield it. He travels the Island hunting the remnant beasts made by the wizards two centuries ago. His neverending task leaves him friendless, senile, near death, and longing for its solace.
Life
He witnesses savage murders unlike any he’s seen. It can only be magic. He reluctantly resumes his oath-sworn duty and resolves to confront the danger.
Enslaved
A disfigured sixteen-year-old tavern girl is held in bondage. Against his nature, he rescues her, and they face Dark Magic, reborn and the cruelest invading Master Race.
The Bond
The Gods demand he watch over the girl. Can he regain his lost memories and teach the girl enough to survive before he dies? How much can the girl teach him? Can he atone for his crimes? Can his care for the girl last, or do the Gods taunt him with that care only to let him die when he finally has a reason to live?
The Bond is Volume One of Three in the Chronicles of Insuldom. The Half Million Word Trilogy is Out Now.
Thoughtfully Written Action with Secrets, Intrigue, Love, and Characters so Palpable you Can Touch Them.
If you like Tolkien, Robin Hobb, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan or George R R Martin, this Epic tale lies somewhere between the first named and the others.
Also by Richard A. McDonald
The Six Volume
Archie Travers Epic
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24th May 1940 Northern France
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An ordinary young English soldier, separated from his unit, weaponless, friendless and lost, finds himself in the bloody Battle of Calais. While hundreds of thousands of allied soldiers, British and French, are evacuated from Dunkirk, two thousand others are ordered by Winston Churchill to fight to the death in Calais. They must die so others may live. Giving that order, by his own testimony, made Churchill physically sick.
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The young soldier accepts the order without question; after all, Churchill didn’t say whose death it was to be.
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He learns how to kill. It comes easily to him and in great numbers. It comes so easily he doubts he’ll ever be able to stop. He makes friends and enemies in plenty, in places high and low, who help and hinder him. No matter how hard he tries, his fate takes him from battle to battle, at home and abroad.
Even when this war ends, fate finds other wars for him and takes him further than he could ever have imagined.
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This is no ordinary man; secrets and mystery surround him, and this is no ordinary war story. What kind of man will he become?
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“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, in proportion as their love to justice above their rapacity in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
MORAL CHAINS
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SOBRIETY OF UNDERSTANDING
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About the Author
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Richard A. McDonald spent thirty-three long years working in various Law Enforcement and Intelligence Management roles before retiring twelve years ago.
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He’s seen the best and worst of human nature. His uncompromising novels reflect that experience, and his work is not for the fainthearted. It’s action-packed yet also complex, punctuated with mystery, intrigue, shock and surprises.
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His epic six-book story of anti-hero Archie Travers is now complete and available for sale exclusively on Amazon.
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His three-volume Epic High Fantasy Genre series, his masterwork, The Chronicles of Insuldom, The Bond, The Rend, and The Cusp, was released on the 30th of November 2024.
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"It must not be supposed that I expect everybody to agree with what I say, still less that I only write what will be popular. I give my testimony according to the lights I follow."
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"You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together—what do you get? The sum of their fears."
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Otiosity should be avoided.
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Richard is an independent author who conceives, writes, rewrites, edits, proofreads and publishes his own work. The approval of discerning readers is, therefore, his own particular craving. After ten years of solid writing, Richard is taking a long and possibly permanent break from writing. Watch this space.
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