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This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, poleaxed a book that the breath is sucked right out of us. Brace yourselves. May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The largest armada of all time approaches the knights' Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the knights as the 'Hounds of Hell.' The knights call themselves 'The Religion.' In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla La Penautier, seeks passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago.
Hardcover. English. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN: 9780374248659. 640 pp. Good with dw. Book No: 57039
