Gortner, author of The Last Queen and The Confessions of Catherine de Medici, eoeA ripping, action-crammed yarn, Shadow of the Swords puts us smack into the Crusades, making this period new and visceral and riveting.
In this gorgeously wrought tale, Kamran Pasha depicts the other side of the legendary struggle with startling modern relevance. His unexpected vision of charismatic Saladin, tortured Richard the Lionheart, and the proud woman who comes between them is passionate, gilded with detail, and steeped in the blood and thunder of two antagonistic faiths, vying for possession of a beleaguered land. Kamran Pasha is a powerful new voice in historical fiction." -Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of Gates of Fire, "Forget everything you think you know about the Crusades. Kamran Pasha is a powerful new voice in historical fiction." -Steven Pressfield, bestselling author of Gates of Fire, "A ripping, action-crammed yarn, Shadow of the Swords puts us smack into the Crusades, making this period new and visceral and riveting.
"Two outsized legends of the Crusades-Richard the Lionheart and Saladin-face one another once again, this time as mortal men in this intelligent, incisive portrait of the quintessential east-west conflict."-Margaret George, bestselling author ofThe Memoirs of CleopatraandThe Autobiography of Henry VIII, "Two outsized legends of the Crusades-Richard the Lionheart and Saladin-face one another once again, this time as mortal men in this intelligent, incisive portrait of the quintessential east-west conflict." -Margaret George, bestselling author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra, "A ripping, action-crammed yarn, Shadow of the Swords puts us smack into the Crusades, making this period new and visceral and riveting.
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