![]() All four characters confront lies, broken vows and unexpected twists in their efforts to vanquish their enemies and save themselves during the massive Turkish siege of Malta. Father Giulio Salvago is an Inquisitor determined to stamp out heresy through torture and fear, but whose own guilt over past sins torments him. John who prefers studying medicine and surgery to butchering Muslims. Christien Luc de Vries is an unwilling Knight of St. Maria, Nico's sister, vows to find and rescue her brother, but priests, knights and her own desire for revenge thwart her plans. ![]() To save his life, he converts to Islam and becomes captain of one of the sultan's war galleys. Nico, a young Maltese boy, is captured by Algerian corsairs in a pirate raid and taken to North Africa, where he serves as a slave to a shipbuilder. ![]() Amid bloody land and sea battles, four protagonists struggle to survive in a world of disease, brutality and religious persecution. ![]() John, a military religious order dedicated to preserving Christendom from the Muslims, serves as the backdrop for Ball's second historical epic (his first novel, Empires of Sand,Ĭhronicled France's efforts to expand its North African empire in the 1870s). The Ottoman Empire's vicious 1565 assault on the island fortresses of Malta, and the vigorous defense of the island by the Knights of St. ![]()
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