Standard of honor

Summary: As the Second Crusade crashes into ruin with the defeat of the Christian armies by the Muslim Sultan, Saladin, a Scots Templar knight, Alexander Sinclair, is taken captive by one of Saladin's captains. Sinclair learns from his captor that Saladin is determined to be merciless in exterminating the Templar knights, believing them to be the single greatest threat to Islam, and he begins to fear for his brothers in arms. Meanwhile, Sinclair's younger cousin André, a fugitive in France, is offered a chance to clear himself of false charges, provided that he and his father, a former master-at-arms, agree to join the Third Crusade in the army of the new King. Richard the Lionheart. But the new King, whose duplicitous ways and fierce temper lead to a shocking and vicious betratal of one of his own best men, proves to be a far bigger threat to the St. Clair family than anything they will face in war.

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