Dateline: Tower of London — When Yeoman Warder Clive Bellamy’s estranged daughter Ashley comes to visit, their reunion is trammeled by a Crown Jewel heist. Trapped inside the fortress, they must use medieval castle warfare to fend off the brutal thieves, while navigating their own past in the process.
An ancient curse collides with modern greed when heavily armed mercenaries lay siege to the Tower of London in David Boito’s Fatal Castle.
Ashley Bellamy, a diamond enthusiast, visits her estranged father Clive–the Tower’s Chief Yeoman Warder–and becomes trapped when ex-bomb disposal expert Richard Bindar leads a brutal heist disguised as a terrorist threat. Their target: the cursed Kohinoor diamond, said to doom any man who possesses it.
With police forces deliberately misdirected and innocent lives at stake, Ashley and Clive must use their intimate knowledge of the fortress’s secret passages and medieval defenses to fight back. Armed with ancient longbows against modern weapons, they turn murder holes and centuries-old tactics against their ruthless enemies.
As the Tower faces its most devastating siege in history, this fractured father-daughter duo must reconcile their past and uncover Bindar’s true motives before the diamond’s curse claims new victims–and London’s greatest fortress falls.
David Boito is a screenwriter and author. He studied film at UCLA and participated in the creative writing program under the tutelage of acclaimed novelist Brian Moore. He has written two award-winning novels, Valley Fliers and Bee Conspiracy. The latter was awarded 2024 Storytrade Awards Finalist in the mystery/detective category. Fatal Castle is his third novel.
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