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Other titles in the Crucible series:

  1. The Nameless Day
  2. The Crippled Angel: Crucible Book 3

Crucible #02: The Wounded Hawk

by Sara Douglass

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Publisher Comments:

The Middle Ages. Finally, the Black Plague has passed, and for a while it seems evil has been defeated. Europe recovers; prosperity returns, trade resumes, and people slowly recover from the effects of the plague. Then, just as the Church relaxes its guard, war spreads across Europe. Widespread heresies challenge the authority of the Church. Revolts and rebellions threaten to topple the established monarchies and overturn the social order of Europe. And then the plague returns, worse than ever.

Thomas Neville, a neurotic warrior-priest, eventually discovers the cause. The minions of the Devil have been scattered throughout European society during the confusion of the Black Death. His task is to discover the identities of these shapeshifters so that the Church can move against them--but it is dangerous. These are master shapeshifters, perfect at their craft, and Neville can never be certain of whom he should trust.

Synopsis:

Thomas Neville, a neurotic warrior-priest, must discover the identities of shapeshifters so that the Church can move against them, but it is a dangerous task. These are master shapeshifters, perfect at their craft, and Neville can never be certain of who he should trust.

About the Author

Sara Douglass was born in Penola, a small farming settlement in the south of Australia, in 1957. She spent her early years chasing (and being chased by) sheep and collecting snakes before her parents transported her to the city of Adelaide and the more genteel surroundings of Methodist Ladies College. Having graduated, Sara then became a nurse on her parents' urging (it was both feminine and genteel) and spent seventeen years planning and then effecting her escape.

That escape came in the form of a Ph.D. in early modern English history. Sara and nursing finally parted company after a lengthy time of bare tolerance, and she took up a position as senior lecturer in medieval European history at the Bendigo campus of the Victorian University of La Trobe. Finding the departmental politics of academic life as intolerable as the emotional rigours of nursing, Sara needed to find another escape.

This took the form of one of Sara's childhood loves - books and writing. Spending some years practising writing novels, one of Sara's novels was published in Australia. BattleAxe (published in North America as The Wayfarer Redemption), the first in the Tencendor series, and found immediate success in Australia. Since 1995 Sara has become Australia's leading fantasy author and one of the country's top novelists. Her books are now sold around the world.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780765342836
Subtitle:
Crucible Book 2
Author:
Douglass, Sara
Publisher:
Tor Classics
Subject:
Angels
Subject:
Good and evil
Subject:
Fantasy - General
Subject:
Fantasy - Historical
Subject:
Fantasy - Dark/Horror
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Subject:
Historical fiction
Edition Description:
Mass Market Paperback
Series:
Crucible
Series Volume:
02
Publication Date:
September 2005
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
624
Dimensions:
6.80x4.34x1.03 in. .64 lbs.

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