The final book in the heart-stopping trilogy that began with Mercenaries.
In twenty years the de Hauteville brothers have gone from penniless
obscurity to become the most potent warrior family in Christendom:
depended on by the Pope, feared by Byzantium and respected by the
Holy Roman Emperor. Now, at the head of the tribe stands Robert, who
has only one aim: to expand his power by military conquest. But his
younger brother, Roger, has his own ambitions.
Yet, the loyalty of blood that binds this family of warriors
together is still present and it is that, above everything, which
will be the catalyst that propels the name de Hauteville to the
pinnacle of power, as they undertake the first true crusade of the
11th century.
Jack Ludlow is the pen-name of writer David Donachie, who was born
in Edinburgh in 1944. He has always had an abiding interest in the
Roman Republic as well as the naval history of the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, which he drew on for the many historical
adventure novels he has set in that period. David lives in Deal with
his partner, the novelist Sarah Grazebrook.
