The Templar Knight: Book Two of the Crusades Trilogy (Crusades Trilogy, 2) - Softcover

Guillou, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061688592 ISBN 13: 9780061688591

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

A knight in the Holy Land.
A woman in the frozen north.
A war that kept them apart. . .

Among the last bastion of God's holy warriors determined to save Jerusalem from the Muslims, Arn Magnusson of the Knights Templar is renowned as a man of compassion, strength, and faith, even among the enemy Saracens–Saladin and his Muslim followers. Yet, neither time nor distance can lessen Arn's pain of separation from his beloved Cecilia; confined to a cloister back home in western GÖtaland, his betrothed, the mother of their newborn son, is a pawn in a war between clans vying for control of the crown.

And when an accident of fate brings together Arn and Saladin, an unlikely friendship is forged that will alter the course of the Templar knight's life, and the history of Jerusalem itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Swedish-born journalist Jan Guillou has won several international awards, including the Prix France Culture. He is the creator of two of the most successful series ever published in Sweden—the Hamilton series and the Crusades Trilogy. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

From Booklist:

The second book of the Crusades Trilogy finds our Viking hero, Arn Magnusson, raised to the illustrious rank of fortress master of the Knights Templar. Exiled to the Holy Land at the tender age of 17 by devious politicos after he and his gal pal, Cecilia Algotsdotter, were caught in the act of “carnal love,” Arn has battled the Saracens, who both fear and respect him, for 10 years as a member of the Templars. While Arn has been battling to keep Jerusalem in the hands of the Christians, Cecilia has been confined for 20 years of “penance” in a cloistered convent back in the frozen north of their homeland and subject to the cruel whims of a malicious Mother Abbess. Both lovers never doubt that they will one day be together again as well as be reunited with their son, Magnus, who was taken from Cecilia at birth. The political intrigue, military action, and exotic setting will appeal to both historical fiction readers and adventure buffs. Although part of a trilogy, this can be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone entry, but most readers who happen upon this title first will surely want to go back for the beginning and will eagerly await the final volume. --Michael Gannon

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061688592
• ISBN 13: 9780061688591
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496