Dimensions
112 x 178 x 24mm
From a master of the historical genre, Paul Doherty, comes the sixteenth novel in the Hugh Corbett series. January 1304 - Oliver Scrope, a powerful manor Lord based in Mistleham in Essex, is holding something Edward, the King of England, wants. In 1291, Lord Oliver led a company assisting in the defence of Acre against the Saracens. When Acre fell, Lord Scrope seized some treasure from the Templars and managed to escape. Returning to Essex, Lord Scrope, originally promising that one of the Templars treasures, the Sanguis Christi, would eventually be given to the King, has now reneged. The Templars also want the beautiful gold cross to be returned to them and are issuing dire threats. It is left to Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, to navigate the icy wastes of Essex and restore calm before the bloody mayhem and murder becomes out of control.
