![]() Meanwhile, in Sicily, a disgraced and exiled Maltese noblewoman, Carla La Penautier, has been trying to return to the doomed island in an attempt to find the bastard son who was taken from her at his birth. The knights call themselves 'The Religion'. To the Turks the knights are known as 'The Hounds of Hell'. In Malta, in May 1565 - from the shores of the Golden Horn, Suleiman the Magnificent, Emperor of the Ottomans, has sent the greatest armada since antiquity to wipe out Islam's most implacable foe, the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, in their stronghold on the island of Malta. Both these qualities are very much in evidence in his new novel, "The Religion". ![]() Hailed as 'the best thriller since "The Silence of the Lambs"' ("Daily Telegraph"), it was particularly praised for the quality of Tim Willocks' prose and for his extraordinarily dark imagination. In 1994, Tim Willocks burst onto the scene with an unforgettable novel called "Green River Rising". ![]()
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