Book description
It is 1536, and the expert swordsman, Jean Rombaud, has been brought
over from France by Henry VIII to behead his wife, Anne Boleyn. But on
the eve of her execution Rombaud swears a vow to the ill-fated queen -
to bury her six-fingered hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a
sacred crossroads. Yet in a Europe ravaged by religious war, the hand of
this infamous Protestant icon is so powerful a relic that many will kill
for it... From a battle between slave galleys to a black mass in a
dungeon, through the hallucinations of St Anthony's Fire to the fortress
of an apocalyptic Messiah, Jean seeks to honour his vow. C. C.
Humphreys was born in Toronto and grew up in Los Angeles and London. A
third generation actor and writer on both sides of his family, he is
married and lives on Salt Spring Island, Canada. www. cchumphreys. com
