Captain James Jackson Lynch,
USN (ret.), “while serving with U.S. and NATO Forces in Europe, became interested in Battle of Hastings lore. Continued
studies and visits to historic places provide the basis for this first novel in a search for how the English managed to lose
the critical battle that robbed them of King and Country. He is the author of Forbidden Gates:
A Long Ago Family’s Lust for Power.
According to the book description of Forbidden Gates: A Long Ago Family’s Lust for Power,
“King Edward the Confessor ruled England but was dominated by three great earls. Set in an age of violence, this story
of Swegen Godwinson, heir apparent to the Earldom of Wessex, seeks to distill real life from the drama, passions, dreams,
conflicts and romance implied in recorded traditions and the limited reporting of the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. Historic and
imagined characters are presented for what might-have-been in times when treachery and murder were the weapons of opportunity
in the unending struggles for power. England's freemen waited and wondered, apprehensive of an ever-threatening Norman
feudalism and a return of the still-dangerous Scandinavian Vikings.”
