The Mercenary Author:Charles Durbin The Mercenary is a novel about a real person, one of the elite group of mercenary captains who fought for the highest bidder. It is a novel of surging action, recreating history while quickening the blood. The Borgia and the Medici were among those who bought his services. His turbulent story is recounted in the first peson and is a sharply edg... more »ed portrait of a politically disastrous era.« less