David John McAllister spent three years in Bulgaria. He travelled from there to tour Romania. The author has also visited a number of other countries in Eastern Europe, having long been interested in that part of the world.
Mr. McAllister has a daughter and two granddaughters. He currently lives with his partner in Cumbria.
In fifteenth-century Eastern Europe, Vlad III of Wallachia conducted a reign of terror. He had citizens impaled by the thousands. People were butchered on his merest whim. In his realm, and beyond it, men and women lived in dread of the Impaler Prince. And this Prince revelled in the horror he inspi...
