O Estandarte da Honra (Trilogia dos Templários #2) - Standard of Honor (Templar Trilogy #2)

Jack Whyte

Record

2010

798 páginas

1d 2h 36m

ISBN-10: 8501081329

Português Brasileiro

Neste livro, três membros da família St. Clair são convocados para uma batalha sem saber se estão lutando contra seus inimigo ou ao lado deles. Em uma terra estranha e cheia de ameaças, a trajetória desses três cavaleiros é conduzida pela intrigas pessoais e políticas dos líderes cruzados, que os levarão (e com eles também à Ordem) à beira do desastre!
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[Standard of Honor: Knights of the Black and White / A Templar Novel #Book Two, © 2008] — The second novel in the thrilling historical trilogy about the rise and fall of the powerful and mysterious Templars, from the author of the immensely popular Camulod Chronicles.

In 1187 one of the few survivors of the Battle of Hattin, young Scots Templar Alexander Sinclair, escapes into the desert despite his wounds. Sinclair has learned about the execution of the surviving Templars after the battle, so when he is rescued, he says nothing of his own standing among the Order of the Temple. Sinclair is one of the Inner Sanctum of the Order-a member of the ancient Brotherhood of Sion, a secret society within the secret society. Two years after the battle, Sir Henry St. Clair is awakened after midnight by a visit from his liege lord, Richard the Lionheart. King Richard is assembling an army to free the Holy Land from the grip of Saladin and his Saracens, and he wants Sir Henry, his first and favorite teacher, to sail with him as his master-atarms. The old man is unwilling to go-he neither likes nor trusts Richard, having found him both a sadist and an egomaniac. But his future, and that of his young son Andr�, a rising knight in the order, depends on his allegiance to Richard. Sir Henry knows that Andr� worships his older cousin, Alexander Sinclair of the Scottish branch of their family, who has been in the Holy Land for years. Alexander will be an ally in an unfamiliar land. Sir Henry agrees to go despite serious misgivings about Richard, and his motives for war. From the moment the first soldiers of the Third Crusade set foot in the Holy Land, the story of the three templars unfolds as the events of the campaign and the political and personal intrigues of the Crusade's leaders again bring the St. Clair family — and the Order — to the edge of disaster!

Resenhas (2)

5 (Perfeito)

"Ricardo era o Rei Guerreiro, a Luz Brilhante da Cristandade. Ele era o Monarca do coração de Leão, o Paladino da Inglaterra e o Soldado Salvador da Igreja de Roma. Nunca se conformaria com uma paz negociada. Sua personalidade demandava nada menos do que triunfo e vitória total. Ele havia levado seu novo reino à falência para pagar aquela guerra, e pretendia capturar e reter cada lasca de glória que pudesse estar ao alcance da mão... mas haveria pouca glória em aceitar a capitulação moderada de um infiel amedrontado. Portanto, o rei estava fazendo tudo ao seu alcance para levar o sultão a empenhar todas as suas forças numa guerra total - uma guerra que estava convencido de que não poderia perder."