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Mike Kilroy

Mike Kilroy

About

I have been a journalist by night (I am a sportswriter) for two decades and a novelist by day (and late, late night) for a year. I have written three fiction novels: Nine Meals, The 17 and my latest foray into fiction, Solo.

Godwine Kingmaker: Part One of The Last Great Saxon Earls

Godwine Kingmaker: Part One of The Last Great Saxon Earls

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<p><span><span>Harold Godwineson, the Last Anglo-Saxon King, owed everything to his father. Who was this Godwine, first Earl of Wessex and known as the Kingmaker? Was he an unscrupulous schemer, using King and Witan to gain power? Or was he the greatest of all Saxon Earls, protector of the English against the hated Normans? The answer depends on who you ask. He was befriended by the Danes, raised up by Canute the Great, given an Earldom and a wife from the highest Danish ranks. He sired nine children, among them four Earls, a Queen and a future King. Along with his power came a struggle to keep his enemies at bay, and Godwine's best efforts were brought down by the misdeeds of his eldest son Swegn. Although he became father-in-law to a reluctant Edward the Confessor, his fortunes dwindled as the Normans gained prominence at court. Driven into exile, Godwine regathered his forces and came back even stronger, only to discover that his second son Harold was destined to surpass him in renown and glory.</span></span></p>

Story Behind The Book

I always thought the end of the world would come not from a super bug or an asteroid with a funny name or Yellowstone blowing its top, but from people. People are the most dangerous thing in the universe and this book explores that. When people go nine meals without food, they become desperate and destroy.

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<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">From the get-go, &quot;Nine Meals&quot; by Mike Kilroy is entertaining and impossible to put down because of all the plot twists. - <i>Book Beast</i></div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;"> </div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;">The sci-fi story's characters are well drawn and contain enough moral conflict in a post-apocalyptic world to bring the reader right into their heads. And I didn't want to leave until their plot lines were resolved and the world was adjusted to its new normal. - <i>Herald-Star online</i></div> <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;"><i> </i> <div>Reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's &quot;The Road,&quot; but with more depth and much more suspenseful, &quot;Nine Meals&quot; is going to delight both fans and non-fans of the genre. - <i>New York Book Pundit</i></div> </div>