Bernard Cornwell's voluminous body of work is notable for its detailed, authoritative portraits of a wide variety of historical epochs His more than 40 novels range in setting from the Napoleonic era (the Ricабямщhard Sharpe series) to the American Revolution (Redcoat) to the dawn of prehistory (Stonehenge, 2000 BC) Cornwell's latest, a multi-volume work-in-progress set in the 9th century in the embattled England of Alfred the Great, began in rousing fashion with The Last Kiавтвйngdom (2005) and continues in this equally compelling sequel, The Pale Horseman Together, these novels showcase Cornwell's substantial gifts as historian and storyteller, recreating, with great immediacy, one of the defining periods of English history.