One Sword for Love

He grew into legend this exultant young giant whom historians call Prester John the blond gray-eyed Christian knight swordsman of fabled prowess who roused the nomadic hordes of the waste country in a great crusade to capture the Holy Land. Prester John's bloody quest for power in the name of God ranks with those of Marco Polo and Genghis Khan.<P>Gardner F. Fox historian extraordinary now identifies the fabulous Prester John as Sir John of Lincoln a Knight Templar out of England whose love for an Eastern princess Shirzade led him to glory.<P>This great novel of the twelfth century echoes the barbarism ecstasy and cruelty of the time when men proudly gave their lives as monuments to their faith.