Brethren

Name: Brethren
Rating: 3.91 (5154 reviews)

by Robyn Young Book 1 in the Brethren Trilogy series.

First published 2006

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After tragedy in Scotland, young Will Campbell is sent to the London Temple and begins the severe apprenticeship required of a future Knight Templar. Service under the scholar Everard exposes him to languages, manuscripts and secrets that ordinary recruits never see. When a Grail romance is stolen from the order’s Paris vault, Will is drawn towards the Anima Templi, a hidden brotherhood whose plans for peace could be condemned as treason by the Temple itself.

In the eastern Mediterranean, the former slave-soldier Baybars rises through the Egyptian army and turns victory over the Mongols into a campaign against the remaining Crusader states. Will’s search for the manuscript carries him through England, France and the Holy Land as rival factions compete to control its message. His coming of age becomes inseparable from a larger struggle over whether faith must be defended by conquest or can survive through negotiation.