The Religion
Adult Fiction
Mattias Tannhauser, the son of a Saxon blacksmith; kidnapped by Muslim raiders as a young child, and trained as a holy warrior before winning his release and settling in Sicily, where he becomes a prosperous arms dealer. His comfortable life is interrupted by the arrival of Contessa Carla La Penautier, a young widow who uses her considerable charms (and title) to recruit Tannhauser to help her find Orlandu, the bastard son she was forced to abandon at birth 12 years earlier. Arriving on Malta, where Carla believes her son is, Tannhauser and Carla get caught in the Turkish attack on the Christian enclave. Meanwhile, Orlandu's father, Ludovico Ludovici, a monk and feared inquisitor, has returned to Malta with hopes of bringing Malta under papal control. Tannhauser has to find Orlandu, unmask the scheming and unscrupulous Ludovici, survive vicious combat against the Turks, win Carla's heart and find a way to escape the "island of fanatics and fools."

Meeka says:
I wasn't sure I was going to like this one or not and it turned out that I do like it. In fact, after the opening prologue I found I was fascinated with the book, as the descriptions of the battle for Malta were well written and brought them to full realization in the imagianation. Apparently this is to be the first in a trilogy of Tannhauser, but from what I took away, this book was more than sufficient to wet the appetite for more.

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