Title: Religion - Tim Willocks - book
Summary :
The siege of Malta has begun.
"Religion" is the name given to the Order of the Hospitallers, but it is also the banner under which the madness of men sometimes rallies. In 1565, cloistered on their small archipelago south of Sicily, the Knights of Malta prepare to receive the furious assaults of the Ottoman army. Outnumbered five to one, the Christians hold the siege at the cost of terrible fighting. An unleashing of violence that draws Mattias Tannhauser, a former janissary who has known both sides, into his wake. For the beautiful eyes of Countess Carla La Penautier, the arms and opium trafficker embarks for hell...
"Hypnotic power of the plot, poetry of evocation, cruel and smiling imagination." Daniel Rondeau – The World
