The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside...
MacDonald is at his masterful best here with atmosphere, plot, political intrigue, and hilarious dialog complete with with accents and attitude. This is the first of the Travis books which presage the drugs-and-corruption-in-Florida tone of the...
« Dans les trains de nuit, mon boulot, c'est le sommeil des autres.
Mais quand il s'agit de veiller sur un dormeur que l'Europe s'arrache, quand les contrôleurs, les douaniers et les énervés du cran ...