Set in the lawless days of the 1520s, Tom Alwyn returns to his home in the Cheviot Border country to find his family scattered and hounded into the wastes. His father and uncles have been murdered and it's all too clear that Tom, as the last man of the family, is in very grave danger. It is this realisation that begins his long struggle with the evil Sir Oswald Culver, a struggle always dominated by a mysterious and weird archer. Tom, together with his loyal henchmen Curst Hobbie and Angel Geordie, will meet the challenge and risk the sword of his enemy. This is an abridged edition of The Weird Archer.