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Michael Jecks : The Last Templar

Headline Book Publishing Ltd, 1995

ISBN 0747214808

1995 Description; Ex Library book with just one very small library stamp to first page & missing first blank page & title page. BOOK in green cloth hardcovers, bumped to corners & edges, tilt to page block. PAGES tanned especially to edges, but clean, flat & tghtly bound. DJ creased & bumped, but complete with no tears.Book Extract ; from DJ; 1307. Paris. A Knight Templar weeps as he watches his friends, broken by torture, go to their deaths at the stake. Pope Clement has destroyed the Order, persuaded of corruption within it. All that remains is the desire for vengeance on those who defiled the Order's name. 1316. Devon. Two years of heavy rains and poor harvests have driven many to a life of thieving; bands of outlaws known as trail bastons rove the countryside, spreading terror in their wake. The newly appointed bailiff of Lydford Castle, Simon Puttock, has had little experience of violence. When the charred body of Harold Brewer is found in his burned-out cottage, Simon assumes it's accidental death. It's the new master of the local Manor, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, recently returned from Europe, who deduces that Brewer was dead before the fire began. With the assistance of the astute yet strangely reticent knight, Simon begins to piece together the events of Brewer's last days. Then word comes of another murder, more horrible by far - for in this case, the victim was undoubtedly burned alive. Are the two incidents connected, and will the killers strike again? In his first novel, Michael Jecks tells a riveting tale of petty jealousy, burning passion and brutal vengeance, and brings each page alive with the colours and smells of fourteenth-century Devon, from its tiny, slumbering hamlets to the wild and dangerous moors., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Acceptable

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