by Tim Willocks · Arrow Books Ltd. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099493594
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In May 1565, Suleiman the Magnificent, Emperor of the Ottomans, has sent the greatest armada since antiquity to wipe out Islam's most implacable foe, the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, in their stronghold on the island of Malta. Meanwhile, in Sicily, a disgraced and exiled Maltese noblewoman, Carla La Penautier, is trying to return to the doomed island to find the bastard son who was taken from her at his birth. To do this, she recruits Mattias Tannhauser, an adventurer and arms dealer, to help her evade the Inquisition and escape on the last galley to run the Turkish blockade. As the apocalyptic conflict between Islam and Christianity becomes the most brutal siege in military history, Tannhauser and Carla must survive the bloody inferno and track down a twelve-year-old boy whose face they have never seen and whose name they do not know. 'The Religion' is an epic tale of love and war, of intrigue and obsession, of politics and faith and high adventure.
Tim Willocks is a British physician and novelist in Stalybridge, Cheshire, England. Willocks studied medicine at the University College Hospital Medical School and has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of sufferers of drug addiction. Willocks holds a second dan black belt in Shotokan karate.
