Tim Willocks

Paris, August 23rd, 1572.What do you do when your wife disappearsIn the middle of the bloodiest massacre in European historyAnd you know she is about to give birth to your only child?Three wars of religion have turned Paris into a fetid cauldron of hatred, intrigue and corruption. The Royal Wedding, intended to heal the wounds, has served only to further poison the fanatics of either creed. But Carla could not have known that when she accepted an invitation to the ceremony.When Mattias Tannhauser rides into town, on Saint Bartholomews Eve, his only intention is to find her and take her home. But as the massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots begins, and the city plunges into anarchy, Carla is abducted by Grymonde, the grotesque gang leader of the Yards, and Tannhauser finds himself imprisoned in the Louvre, at the centre of a vicious conspiracy.Wanted by the law, the assassins guild, and a militant army who call themselves the Pilgrims of Saint-Jacques, Tannhauser must rise to pitiless extremes even he has never known before. With no one to help him but a stable boy, he wades into a river of blood without knowing what lies on the other side.As he harrows Hell in search of his belovedHis destiny is changed forever byThe Twelve Children Of Paris

"Malta, mayo de 1565. Los caballeros cristianos de la orden de Los Hospitalarios, también llamada La Religión, se preparan para la invasión de la isla por Solimán el Magnífico y sus 45000 «leones de

That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates. As the River sucks them all towards the abyss, Klein must choose either to claim his freedom and leave the ones he cares for to die, or risk everything and fight...

Their god is War. And every god needs his Devil. THE RELIGIONMalta, 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is unleashed on the doomed island as the Turks do battle with the Knights. The Knights call themselves The Religion. The Turks call them the Hounds of Hell.

What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption? During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town homicide. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns - including the local police and private security force - he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won't be bought and won't be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself... By the time Willocks's tale is finished, fourteen men have died. He shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.

''Macho, sexy, profoundly bloody and concerned with spiritual salvation. This wonderful adventure story is also an unavoidably resonant meditation on the power of religion to incite war.'' Sunday Telegraph 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 Islams most implacable foe, the Christian Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem, in their stronghold on the island of Malta. Known to the Turks as The Hounds of Hell, the knights call themselves The Religion. 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. Carla recruits a notorious adventurer and arms merchant Mattias Tannhauser to help her evade the Inquisition and to escape on the last galley to run the Turkish blockade. As the ensuing apocalyptic conflict between Islam and Christianity becomes the most brutal and harrowing siege in military history, Tannhauser and Carla must survive the bloody inferno and track down a twelve-year-old boy whose face they have never seen and whose name they do not know. And neither of them reckon on the return of the avenging Inquisitor, Ludovico Ludovici

Willocks, a novelist ("Bad City Blues") and screenwriter ("Sin"), strikes gold with this epic account of the Turkish siege of Malta in 1565--the first of a planned trilogy featuring Mattias Tannhause

Malta, 1565. La orden de los caballeros de San Juan, tambien conocida como La Orden, obtiene de Carlos V la cesión de la isla de Malta. Sin embargo los turcos retienen una parte de la costa de la isla y el Gran Maestre, Jean La Valette, teme que puedan reconquistar toda la isla provocando una guerra santa. Para evitarlo, tratara por todos los medios de expulsar a Suleiman. Mientras tanto, en Sicila la condesa Carla LaPenautier se embarca camino de Malta en busca de su hijo, desaparecido doce años atras. El unico hombre capaz de ayudarla en su mision es Mattias Tannhauser, un joven soldado aventurero y valiente que accede en acompañar a la condesa a Malta. Alli, en medio del sitio militar mas espectacular de la historia, deberan encontrar al chico y alejarlo de la Guerra Santa y descubriran que paso tiempo atras. Con gran meticulosidad y rigor historico el autor nos acerca a las vidas de un pequeño grupo de intrepidos hombres y mujeres que desafian la locura de la Guerra Santa.