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The Jester Book

In The Jester James Patterson and his occasional collaborator Andrew Cross step across genre boundaries and produce a hectic historical adventure of distinctly mixed merit. This is a revenge story, mystery and love story across insuperable class barriers--the mixture is rich and the ingredients sometimes ill-combined. Part of the trouble is that the book wears its research too lightly. The inn-keeper hero Hugh reads a little too like a modern Californian time shifted into the eleventh century while the book's inventive plotting plays fast and loose with historical fact to a worrying extent: Hugh's life disguised as a jester combines elements from about five different centuries. The account of the First Crusade is convincing enough and there are moments--Hugh's first sight of Byzantium--that are genuinely moving. The plot depends a little on Hugh's being obtuse--he takes forever to work out why the relic-hunting, sinister Tafurs (Christian shock troops with a taste for atrocity) destroy everything he loves. At the same time, the plot is genuinely exciting as Hugh is driven to take revenge for specific crimes and the general offence that feudalism often was; there is a real sense here of what medieval warfare might have looked and felt like that often makes up for specific inaccuracies. --Roz KaveneyRead More

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    Arriving home from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his wife has been abducted. Hugh, taking on the role of a jester, is able to infiltrate the enemy's castle where he believes his wife is being held captive. And when a man is fighting for freedom - for his wife, and for everything he holds dear - he will prove a formidable opponent.

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    Freedom - in eleventh-century France it is a luxury enjoyed by only the King and nobility. For the serf it is surely worth fighting for. But is it worth dying for? Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted. The dark riders came in the dead of night like devils wearing no colours but black crosses on their chests. They search for a relic one worth more than any throne in Europe and no man can stand in their way. Until Hugh taking on the role of a jester is able to infiltrate the enemy's castle where he believes his wife is being held captive. And when a man is fighting for freedom - for his wife and for everything he holds dear - he will prove a formidable opponent. With the unstoppable pace of a page-turning thriller "The Jester" is a breathtaking pulse-pounding adventure. No one who has ever hoped for good to defeat evil or for love to conquer all will be able to put down this masterful novel.

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    James Patterson, Andrew Gross

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