"Black Arrow" is a true standard of historical adventure novel, a golden classic of the genre. A book that not only our grandfathers, but also our great-grandfathers enjoyed, just as our great-grandchildren will enjoy. Because years and decades pass, but the story of mysterious and risky adventures taking place in England in the last days of internecine strife, known in history as the “War of the White and Scarlet Roses,” still captivates and excites readers. The rivalry between the two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty - York (white rose) and Lancastrian (scarlet rose) - resulted in an open struggle for the throne. An endless chain of intrigues, crimes, lies, fatal mistakes that haunt the main characters, keep the reader in suspense from the first pages of the novel to the happy interchanges.R.L. Stevenson: “We go through life like an advancing army through a devastated territory: the age we have reached we leave in our rear without any cover.” “The darkest era is today.” “The publisher is the one who separates the seeds from chaff - and prints chaff"

Annotation from Darinella "Laboratory of Fiction": "Against the backdrop of the brutal medieval war of the Lancaster and York dynasties, known from the history of England as the War of the Roses, a love story and exciting adventures of a young gunslinger develops nicknamed Black Arrow. The heroes will have to endure a lot in order not only to regain their good name and family estate, but also to earn the love of the beautiful Joanna Sandy..."