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The Saracen Blade

HERETIC... CRUSADER... LOVER

Pietro di Donati, son of a 13th-century Sicilian peasant, who was born at almost the exact same moment as the Emperor Frederick. Their stories are linked and backdrop of the Children’s and Albigensian Crusades. Pietro slashed his way across across the teeming, violent world and carved out his destiny with the fury of a man possessed — by God or Satan, none knew which. He was a man of many enemies and many loves, a man born to battle who mocked at death, a man for whom no danger was too great if it brought him nearer the power he craved or the women he lusted for....

  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780899662169
  • Genres
  • fiction, historical, fantasy, romance, medieval
  • Release date
  • 1952