The Last Duel

<p><b>THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br><b><u><br>Now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.</u></b><br><br>In 1386 a few days after Christmas a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death. A trial by combat to prove which man's cause was right in God's sight.<br><br>The dramatic story of the knight the squire and the lady unfolds during the tumultuous fourteenth century. A time of war plague and anarchy as well as of honour chivalry and courtly love.<br><br>The notorious quarrel appears in many histories of France but no writer has recounted it in full until now.<br><br>_______________________________________________________________<br><b><br>'Succeeds brilliantly in combining page-turning intensity with eye-opening insights'</b> <i>Sunday Times</i><br><b><br>'Suspenseful and well written'</b> <i>Spectator</i></p>