{"product_id":"the-illmade-knight","title":"The Ill-Made Knight","description":"William Gold comes into the world as his family slides down the social ladder. His head is filled with tales of chivalry  yet he is branded a thief  and must make do with being squire to his childhood friend Sir Robert  a knight determined to make a name for himself as a man at arms in France. While William himself slowly acquires the skills of knightly combat  he remains an outsideruntil the Battle of Poitiers when Sir Robert is cut down by the greatest knight of the age  Sir Geoffrey de Charny  and William  his lowly squire  revenges him. But with his own knight dead  no honor accrues to William for this feat of arms  and he is forced to become a mercenary. Scavenging a mismatched set of armor from the knightly corpses  he joins one of the mercenary companies now set to pillage a defenseless France  and so begins a bloody career that sees William joining forces with the infamous Sir John Hawkwood and immersing himself in a treacherous clandestine war among the Italian city states. But paradoxically it is there  among the spies  assassins  and hired killers serving their ruthless masters  that William finally discovers the true meaning of chivalryand his destiny as a knight.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44847192047669,"sku":"ByrdShop_1409142418","price":315.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1409142418.jpg?v=1765538192","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-illmade-knight","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}