The Sword of Albion by Mark Chadbourn reviewed on Fantasy Book Review. The year is 1588, and tension runs high between Spain and England. It’s in this world that the spy Will Swyfte makes his appearance. He’s famous throughout all of England for his exploits against the Spanish, but not everything is as it seems… Obscured by history, a race of supernatural beings harasses human kind, by many known as ‘The Fair Folk’, always making plans to wreak havoc. People mysteriously disappear, or get killed in cruel ways.
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