by Jan Guillou · Corbaccio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788879725484
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«Il templare» is the historical novel by Jan Guillou, published by Corbaccio in hardcover (408 pages, in Italian).
Arn Magnusson, a Templar knight, serves in the Holy Land, near Jerusalem, during the Crusades and comes to lead the garrison of Gaza. The historical novel recreates the struggles for control of the region, with war, faith and loyalty as the axes of a story set in the Middle Ages.
The work is the second installment of Jan Guillou's The Crusades Trilogy series.
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Crusades, the Templars and the Middle Ages.
Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a French-Swedish author, journalist and convicted spy. Guillou has been accused by some commentators of being an agent of the KGB Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in 1973 when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret, immoral and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån (IB). He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget, together with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp, and Liza Marklund.
