Assassins
Love and intrigue in the age of the Crusades
Amid the Crusades, Nureddin — warrior, minstrel and poet — must choose between loyalty to Saladin and love for Laila, a woman bound to the deadly world of the Old Man of the Mountain.
Blending the atmosphere of One Thousand and One Nights with historical and political intrigue, Assassins follows Nureddin, a warrior, minstrel and poet, torn between his commitment to Sultan Saladin and his love for Laila.
While Saladin seeks to unite the fragmented Arab world against the Crusaders, Laila occupies a central place in the artificial paradise of the feared Old Man of the Mountain, whose followers are driven to blind obedience. Through war, intrigue, poetry and conspiracy, the novel tells a story of love tested by extraordinary circumstances.
- Category
- Historical fiction
- Language
- English
- Written by
- Nicholas Snow
