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"Entertaining very colorful historical fiction"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 8, 2003

In 1096, French innkeeper Hugh de Luc joins the Crusades in an effort to obtain his freedom from his nasty overlord Lord Baldwin. However, he finds the war not to be anything like he expected as he witnesses atrocities on both sides as they crazily trek for seemingly endless Read more...

"Exciting Historical Fiction"
Reviewed by Sheri Melnick
Posted March 28, 2003

Known for his terse, simply worded mystery novels, Patterson deviates greatly from the norm to pen this historical tale of romance and deception in eleventh century France. With a first person account of poor innkeeper, Hugh De Luc, Patterson probes the force behind a relic of the crusades and Read more...