The Good Yeomen

From the jacket flap:This striking novel, real as today's newspaper and timeless as legend, is about the little band of men who preferred the freedom of Sherwood Forest to the iron-hard discipline of feudal England. The hero is John Nailer, who fled hanging after he killed a man in hot anger, and fell in with Robin Hood, the bankrupt land-holder.John had been a blacksmith and a serf. Now he became a free man and a fighter,learning to command men. From Friar Tuck, an unconventional priest, he learned the meaning of justice. And from Lady Agnes, of the dark and daring beauty, he discovered love, and how to give it up. The time came when John had to choose between Robin's way and his own. How John followed the bolder course, and how he fared on it, make up the balance of this unusual book.