Crusade - Couverture rigide

Young, Robyn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0525950168 ISBN 13 : 9780525950165

Editeur : E P Dutton, 2007

Synopsis

A second installment of a trilogy that began with Brethren follows the efforts of Brethren member Will Campbell to discover who is sabotaging the group's peace-keeping efforts, an investigation that is hampered by a cabal of merchants that would promote war in the Middle East to increase their profits. 40,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Crusade is a sweeping historical adventure as well as a cracking sequel (Financial Times)

Swords clash in the first sentence of Young's latest...and go on clashing throughout. If you like your history with plenty of action...then this second part of the proposed trilogy is for you All this is stitched together into a narrative whose attention to detail is set off with pacy dialogue. Equally enjoyable is the description of everyday life, which offers some release from the gorier episodes - poisonings, stabbings and impalings - that were evidently all in the line of duty for the average 13th Century Crusader (The Times)

One of the best historical debuts in recent memory. Exciting and enthralling, it gripped me from the first page and left me waiting anxiously for the next instalment (John Connolly on BRETHREN)

Tipped to be the next Da Vinci Code (Elle on BRETHREN)

Wonderful... loaded with atmosphere, action, and intrigue. The Crusades come alive (Steve Berry on BRETHREN)

El Cid meets The Da Vinci Code! Exciting, page-turning fiction (Simon Mayo's book panel, BBC Radio Five Live on BRETHREN)

If you love the Templars, the Crusades, and the Middle Ages, this is the book for you. Robyn Young is an exciting new voice (Sharon Penman on BRETHREN)

A sweeping historical adventure with strong characters and serious verve...Can't wait for the next two volumes! (Sarah Weinman on BRETHREN)

Richly worked and captivating...an epic story of war, intrigue and heroism (Good Book Guide on BRETHREN)

Swords clash in the first sentence...and go on clashing throughout...plenty of action...pacy dialogue. Equally enjoyable is the description of everyday life (The Times)

Biographie de l'auteur

Robyn Young was born in Oxford and grew up in the Midlands and Devon. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex and lives and writes in Brighton full-time. Her first novel, BRETHREN, was the bestselling hardback debut novel of 2006, with the paperback also going straight into the top ten bestseller list. Two more bestsellers followed, CRUSADE and REQUIEM, completing the Brethren trilogy, which has now sold over a million copies and been translated into nineteen languages.

The inspiration for Robyn's new trilogy, which began with INSURRECTION and continues in RENEGADE, grew out of an earlier research trip to Scotland. Robyn explains: 'Day by day, out of the pages of history and the wild landscape, one figure came striding, larger, clearer than all the others - Robert the Bruce. He swept me off my feet and carried me into a story of bitter family feuds, two civil wars and the struggle for the crown. I realised there was no way this character could play a cameo role in another man's story. His tale was too powerful, too intricate and too good to be cut down and boxed to fit.'

To find out more about Robyn Young and her historical novels, visit her website at www.robynyoung.com and her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/RobynYoungAuthor and follow her on Twitter @RobynYoung36

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: E P Dutton
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0525950168
• ISBN 13: 9780525950165
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 493
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible