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Product Identifiers
PublisherOrion Publishing Group, The Limited
ISBN-101409105385
ISBN-139781409105381
eBay Product ID (ePID)201640022
Product Key Features
Book TitleLast Crusaders-Ivan the Terrible
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicHistorical
GenreFiction
AuthorWilliam Napier
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsNapier is good at evoking the adrenaline rush of all the fighting and swordplay, but excels even more at creating characters who seize the reader's attention and imagination.-- SUNDAY TIMES
TitleLeadingThe
SynopsisAfter the final defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the great naval battle of Lepanto, it seems that Europe is safe. But one day Nicholas Ingoldsby is summoned to London for an audience with the Queen herself. He is to go on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople, the heart of the old enemy - and then onward, to a little-known but rising power called Muscovy. Here the Russian Czar has just proposed marriage to Elizabeth herself. Such a bold offer should be no surprise, for this is no normal leader: Ivan IV Vasil'evich is known to his people as Ivan the Terrible. But this rising new Christian power in the North has also caught the attention of the Ottomans; and their allies, the wild Tatar horsemen of the Asiatic steppes, Russia's ancient enemy. And soon Nicholas and his fellow travellers, Smith, Stanley and the faithful Hodge, are caught up in their most dangerous adventure yet, trapped in a doomed Muscovy ruled by a deranged but cunning Czar Ivan, and with a vast army of Tatar tribesmen riding down upon them, vowed to burn the city to the ground and extinguish Russia forever...