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C.
C. Humphreys.
The French Executioner.
London: Orion, 2002.
371pp.
Paperback ISBN
0752846396.
Publisher's
recommended price £9.99
It
is
1536 and the
expert swordsman, Jean Rombaud, has been brought over from France by
Henry
VIII to behead his wife, Anne Boleyn. But on the eve of her execution
Rombaud
swears a vow to the ill-fated queen. He promises to bury her
six-fingered
hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a sacred crossroads. Yet in a
Europe ravaged by religious war, the hand of this infamous Protestant
icon
is so powerful a relic that many will kill for it...
From
a
battle
between slave galleys, through the hallucinations of St Anthony's Fire,
to the fortress of an apocalyptic Messiah, Jean seeks to honour his
vow. The
French Executioner: a story of courage, of the pursuit of power and
of loyalty beyond reason...
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