Robert Shea is co-author of the famous ILLUMINATUS! trilogy (Dell). His
other works include SHIKE and ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS. He lives in
Glencoe, Illinois.
A TIME OF UNCONSTRAINED PASSION,
INCREDIBLE MAGIC, AND, ABOVE
ALL, HEROES WITHOUT EQUAL
IN THE CENTURIES
TO COME....
Destiny will not wait. At last, the
final confrontation between East
and West, Saracen and Crusader, is
about to take place. The awesome
magic of one civilization will be
pitted against the unslaked thirst for
conquest of its rival.
Daoud ibn Abdallah, the fair-haired
spy and assassin known as
the White Emir from the palaces of
Cairo, will have his long-anticipated
duel with Simon de Gobignon,
the young French count entrusted
with the guardianship of King and
Pope. And Sophia, the beautiful
courtesan richly trained in the arts
of both love and treachery, must
make her agonizing choice between
the two warriors, a choice whose
consequences will go dangerously
beyond the hungers of the heart, or
of life and death itself....