Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, led Scotland's rebel army in a thirty-year war against England. Now award-winning author Mollie Hunter tells the story of this legendary king, and of the young man who would become his swift rider and master of espionage. As Scotland's guerrilla campaign gathers bloody momentum, Martin Crawford finds himself deeply entrenched in a war to regain his country's freedom.Picking up the story of Scotland's light for independence ten years after the death of William Wallace (played by Mel Gibson in the Oscar-winning motion picture Braveheart), The King's Swift Rider is an homage to one of history's greatest kings, Robert the Bruce.