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May 1565. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. The greatest armada ever approaches the Knights’ Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. The Turks know the Knights as the “The Hounds of Hell.” The Knights call themselves “The Religion.”

In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla la Penautier, seeks a passage to Malta in a quest to get the son extracted from her at his birth twelve years ago. Really the only man with the expertise and daring to help her is a Rabelaisian soldier of fortune, arms dealer, former janissary, and strapping Saxon adventurer by the name of Mattias Tannhauser. He agrees to accompany the lady to Malta, where, amidst the most spectacular siege in military history, they must look for the boy - whose name they don't know and whose face they have never seen–and pluck him from the jaws of Holy War.

The Religion is Book Among the Tannhauser Trilogy, and from the first page of the epic account of the last great medieval conflict between East and West, it is clear we could in the hands of your master. Not since James Clavell has a novelist so powerfully and assuredly plunged readers headlong into another and time. Anne Rice transformed the vampire novel. Stephen King reinvented horror. Now, in a magnificent tale of heroism, tragedy, and passion, Tim Willocks revivifies historical fiction.

Category: Historical