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Book Synopsis“[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant.”—Dan Jones,
Sunday Times (UK)
Trade Review"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th-century Levant, dropping his man in the mountains of the Holy Land and letting him go to work, swinging swords, wooing princesses, toadying to emperors and smearing his enemies in honey before chaining them to the battlements… Reynald was a crusader on steroids: audacious, adventurous and violent. He earned his reputation, and like him or loathe him, his story is worth retelling, more than eight centuries on." -- Dan Jones - The Sunday Times (UK)
"Always entertaining… There is nothing saintly, dull or life-denying about
God’s Wolf. Reynald’s deliberate excesses are lovingly delineated; the shock value that was his hallmark runs undiluted through its easy and personal chronology… Reynald…is one of those giants of history who may repel but can never be forgotten." -- Minoo Dinshaw - The Spectator (UK)
"A cracking read." -- Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads
"A swashbuckling yet scholarly biography of the infamous 12th-century crusader Reynald de Chatillon." -- Sebastian Shakespeare - Tatler
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God’s Wolf is well written, well informed, and exciting; in fact, it hooked me in straightaway… It is by far the liveliest work I’ve read on the subject." -- Patricia Crone, former professor of Islamic history, Institute for Advanced Study
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God’s Wolf is enormously readable. It is written in a very lively style and with vigour and pace… This is a very exciting book, both scholarly and at the same time accessible to a wider readership." -- Carole Hillenbrand, professor of Islamic history, University of Edinburgh
