The Royal Ranger: The Ambush at Sorato: Ranger's Apprentice: The Royal Ranger, Book 7 by John Flanagan
This is a Royal Ranger book. However, it feels that Will has a more important role than Maddie. In this book, the rangers are in a pseudo-Italy. Their is a tribe of horse-born raiders scouting out the area. The rangers work with the local inhabitants to set up a plan to repel the raiders. This includes getting some mercenary crossbow-men to help out. The leader of the mercenaries is greedy, cruel to his underlings and not good at following orders. This will eventually lead to his downfall.
Will comes up with the plan to scare them away. However, he is willing to listen to others to make changes as needed. There are a few challenges. Maddie is nearly caught in one of her missions, and has to make some trick moves to escape. One of the local leaders is caught and needs to be rescued. Then there are the mercenaries that abandoned their posts early. It does turn out that they still got the results, but Will needed to have his temper restrained. The "good guys" are not perfect. The enemies are not fully evil. There is respect for each other. The only ones that are not respected are those that believe they know everything and will not accept criticism.
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