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The Iron Lance
(Stephen Lawhead)

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Beginning with the recollections of an Edinborough scholar discovering the deeds of his ancestors, the story plunges back to the 11th century, a time of instability and brutality. The Byzantine Empire is beginning its slow decline against the numberless hordes of the Far East. The Kings of Western Europe are all on the march to war under the banners of the cross by order of the pope to reclaim the holy land. When news of the crusade reaches as far as the Orkney Islands Murdo Ranulfson the youngest of his family is heartbroken when his father, two brothers and his cousin take up the cross and forbid him from doing the same.
            But when his lands are confiscated he leaves to find his father amid the brutality and slaughter of the crusades. Here his desire to return to his love and save his mother are all that keep him going, accompanied by three unorthodox monks he begins to realise the folly of fighting over the holy land and learns first hand that the Saracens are not so different to himself. Amid the ruins of Antioch and again in the war torn streets of Jerusalem he is confronted by a holy vision of Saint Peter and is told how to find the spear of destiny, the iron lance, the spear that pierced Jesus Christ.
Chosen because of his purity of heart in his reasons for travelling to the holy land he is tasked with saving the relic from the greedy war mongering grasps of the crusading warlords. With his father now dead and his brothers consumed by their greed for plunder. Murdo takes it upon himself to take the lance for himself and reclaim his lands. Secretly swapping the lance for a rusty spear, the unknowing western lords praise him as a hero and take him to the Viking King Magnus. Here Murdo beseeches him for his lands back, but a deep conspiracy is uncovered.
The Viking king reveals that he had no knowledge that he had claim to these lands and that it was the church that granted them to him. Realising the corruption and betrayal of the Orkney abbot he rushes back with his Viking war host to reclaim his lands and save his mother and fiancé before their lands suffer a similar fate.
Upon reaching their home however they find they are too late and his family are missing. In a rage murdo and his Viking comrades storm the church and kidnap the bishop to bring him before the Viking king where he is forced answer to his crimes, and reveal the whereabouts of murdo's fiancé and mother. For his deeds in saving the holy lance and uncovering the corruption of the church Murdo is rewarded with a realm in Scotland where he can put into effect the mission of creating a peaceful and free kingdom as instructed by his vision of saint peter. The book delves deeply into the horrors and savagery of the crusades and strongly puts forward the ideals that no matter how dark things get, there is always hope if one stays true to oneself and keeps faith.



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