A review by alisonjfields
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I by Charles Spencer

3.0

This is a slight, but engaging chapter to the end of your favorite colossal history of the English Civil War(s) and the Protectorate. I'm not sure exactly what I was expecting, but the enormously entertaining back half of this book reads like a 17th century "Fugitive"-styled thriller as the various men connecting with the death of Charles I try (and mostly fail) to avoid being captured and horribly executed by Royalists, mercenaries and their former compatriots turned informants. It rare that histories about Puritans are this much fun.