When Danny Bowers reluctantly joins an English Civil War re-enactment society to impress the girl he has chased since childhood, he soon finds himself involved in the low-level intrigues of an irascible colonel locked in a personal feud with the Army of Parliament, a philandering Lord General, and the more sinister machinations of an unscrupulous historian with his own axe to grind.
When Danny Bowers reluctantly joins an English Civil War re-enactment society to impress the girl he has chased since childhood, he soon finds himself involved in the low-level intrigues of an irascible colonel locked in a personal feud with the Army of Parliament, a philandering Lord General, and the more sinister machinations of an unscrupulous historian with his own axe to grind.