6/30/2023 0 Comments The religion by tim willocks![]() ![]() He agrees to accompany the lady to Malta, where, amid the most spectacular siege in military history, they must try to find the boy-whose name they do not know and whose face they have never seen-and pluck him from the jaws of Holy War. The only man with the expertise and daring to help her is a Rabelaisian soldier of fortune, arms dealer, former janissary, and strapping Saxon adventurer by the name of Mattias Tannhauser. In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla La Penautier, seeks passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. The Turks know the knights as the "Hounds of Hell." The knights call themselves "The Religion." ![]() ![]() The largest armada of all time approaches the knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. ![]()
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