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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  libraryhermit | Sep 9, 2009 |  For the person who read the last book first, this one put so many pieces of the puzzle in place for me. The two suprises for me were Baybars being killed by his son and the possibility of Rose being Garins son (yes I forgot this one from the last book). Throughout the book Robyn has certainly captured the atmosphere and you can feel the fear, the anger, the love and sorrow felt by all the charectors. I loved the atmosphere at the end when Acre is being attacked and felt moved and sad for the survivors and that things had progressed to that point when they had all worked so hard.d Well done Robyn, I would recommend this trillogy in a second. (  ) Freisianbeauty | Jul 10, 2009 |  communityfriend | Jan 15, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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The year is 1274, and, after years of bloodshed, peace reigns in the Middle East, in part due to the efforts of a mysterious group known as the Brethren. However, one of their number, Will Campbell, suspects that the Brethren have been betrayed. Their enemies are numerous and powerful: A cabal of ruthless Western merchants aims to reignite war in the Holy Land, in the hope that they can turn a profit—by means of a plan so scandalous that should they succeed the entire Muslim world will rise against the Christians in retaliation. Prince Edward—once a trusted member of the Brethren—has made a promise to the pope: He will take the Cross to Jerusalem and lead a new Crusade. War has come.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, Sultan Baybars is caught in a power struggle. His eldest son, and heir to the kingdom, has become involved in the dangerous designs of the insidious soothsayer, Khadir. While Baybars wants to take on the mighty Mongol empire, Khadir and others in the sultan’s court want to destroy the Christians once and for all. As the sultan’s son schemes against his own family, old scars of the Crusades are quickly uncovered and new wounds appear. To survive the escalating conflict and protect his family, Will must harness all his knowledge and courage. In a world of reckless greed and violence, Campbell may become the people’s last hope for peace.
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Ever since reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, I have become a pushover for any historical novel about medieval or renaissance eras with evil and not-so-evil churchmen and rulers of principalities and empires, especially if it also contains something about books, libraries, and lost or threatened manuscripts.
Then when quite a few years later, and Dan Brown came along, it looks like a whole new genre has blossomed. Of course these two authors were not the first to delve into this fairly broadly described style. Now whenever I can find a much earlier example of those topics, I like to compare them and see if I can find any more similarities.
Do any of you out there work on the same obsessions? I am guessing yes.