Showing The Devil Is Loose by Graham Shelby

It is winter in England, in 1192, when some news arrives which penetrates the furthest ice fastness of that snow-bound land. Richard Coeur de Lion, the battle-hardened warrior King, has been captured and imprisoned while returning from the Crusades -- after spending a few months in the land he was supposed to rule. As the winter snow melts, England pays a dear price of being a kingdon without a king. For Richard's jealous brother, John, not content with robbing his brother's subjects of all they have, plans insurrection to wrest the throne itself. But then a second message comes, one which chills even John's thin blood. "Le diableetoit dechaine" ("The devil is loose").