Seeing Captain Stryker in the midst of battle is unforgettable. A seasoned veteran of the wars in the Netherlands, he returns home to England to take revenge on the man who left him for dead and scarred his soul and body for life. More out of oath than conviction, Stryker serves King Charles. He has no connection with the aristocracy, preferring the company of a few loyal men, which sometimes includes the actor Lancelot Forrester and the foul-mouthed Sergeant Skellen. But when it is discovered that there is an infiltrator at work in the heart of the royal court, Prince Rupert chooses Stryker to capture the man before he realizes the game is over. With just a handful of men and light weapons, in a race against time Stryker must travel through the entire a country torn apart by anger and besieged by bands of marauding soldiers. But Stryker didn't know that there was someone else on the trail, the one Stryker had sworn to kill, Captain Eli Makepeace, his sworn enemy, the man who nearly killed him.

In the novel "Blood of a Traitor" , the first in Michael Arnold's acclaimed Civil War Chronicles series of historical thrillers, its battle-hardened hero, Captain Stryker, "Civil War Sharp," faces his nemesis.

"This novel can be compare with the best works of Cornwall"."Yorkshire Post".

Historical Novel Group, 2015.