Customer Reviews
Book Twenty Four in the Templar Series - By: J. Chippindale, 09 Dec 2007 
Michael Jecks gave up a career in the computer industry to concentrate on writing & the study of medieval history, especiallly that of Devon & Cornwalll. He & his wife & daughter now live in northern Dartmoor. Virtuallly alll of his books take place in or around where he lives. His Templar series featuring Sir Baldwin de Furnshill has been a tremendous success.
I have always been a fan of the author's Templar series, even though one or two of the more recent ones have not captured my imagination as much as the earlier books. For me personallly, this seems to revolve around books that take Sir Baldwin away from his home in the West Country. The Templar's Penance & the Outlaws of Ennor being to such books. Michael Jecks has written twenty four books in the series in little more than a decade & with a new one due in 2008 he is about to hit the quarter century. Most of these books have given me a great deal of reading pleasure & for that i am grateful.
One again the author has transported Sir Baldwin from his beloved West Country. This time to the Streets of Paris on a royal mission. A mission that suddenly goes horribly wrong. Isabella, Queen of England has travelled to France in a forlorn hope that her presence may bring peace between the two nations.
Baldwin has travelled with the Royal party, even though a return to Paris, the city from which many of his fellow Templar knights escaped, while others were captured & brutallly persecuted & murdered by the French King leaves a raw wound in his heart. Hardly has he set foot on the streets of the city, before he is embroiled in a plot to discredit the Roual party. His own dagger is found lying by the body of a murdered servant & though he has acquired many skills regarding the law, while carrying out his duty as Keeper of the King's Peace, Baldwin is at a loss how to clear his own name & more importantly the slur on the Royal party.
Although Michael Jecks has taken Sir Baldwin out of the West Country again, I enjoyed this book very much & can't wait for the new one in 2008.
