The Saracen Blade – Frank Yerby

Description

HERETIC… CRUSADER… LOVER

Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. There is gilt on the spine of the book. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and a touch edge worn. There is a little foxing on the first and last pages. The binding is excellent. Previous owner name inscribed; but clean and very good conndition inside.

348 Pages, Hardback,

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….