These four books are the coming-of-age story I set out to tell. The Saga of Roland Inness begins with four books-Longbow, Warbow, The Broken Realm and The Ransomed Crown. It is the time of Richard the Lionheart, Robin Hood, Eleanor of Aquitaine and William Marshall, legendary figures all-some real and some fictional. Most of all, it a story of high adventure set in a time so filled with drama it has spawned legends that fascinate people to this day.

It is a story of courage, loyalty, honor and treachery. The Saga of Roland Inness series began as the coming-of-age tale of a fourteen-year-old boy who possessed extraordinary talent with a longbow. During those years he saw the Army reborn from its post-Vietnam nadir to the outstanding force it became and remains today. He just missed Vietnam, but found that life as a Captain in an army broken by that war was not what he wanted.Īfter tours in Germany and Korea, he returned to Louisiana and civilian life where he began a 10 year career in government including four years as a senior official in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration. Every living male member of his family had served in the Army covering World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam, so it was a natural step for him to attend and graduate from West Point. Like most southern boys of that era he saw the military as an honorable and adventurous career. Between chopping cotton, dove hunting and Little League ball he developed a love of great adventure stories like Call It Courage and Kidnapped. Wayne Grant grew up in a tiny cotton town in rural Louisiana where hunting, fishing and farming were a way of life.

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