The document advertises and summarizes the historical fiction novel "Silk Road" by Colin Falconer. It describes the plot as following a Templar Knight named Josseran Sarrazini who is escorting the Pope's emissary on a mission to save Christendom from the Mongol hordes. However, Josseran is not all that he appears to be. The summary promises secrets and a heart-wrenching love story as Josseran travels to the court of Khubilai Khan beyond Xanadu. Reviews praise the book for its rich prose and balancing of good and evil, love and hate, and sin and goodness.

1. Silk Road
Colin Falconer

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“Utterly absorbing and captivating.”
Mirella Patzer, History and Women
amazon.com
For more information about Colin
Falconer please visit
colinfalconer.org

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The Holy Land, 1260

4. Josseran Sarrazini,
a Templar Knight,
escorts the Pope’s emissary
on a misison…

5. to save all Christendom from the
oncoming Mongol hordes…

6. But Josseran is not all that he
appears to be…

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…and out there waiting for him on
the other side of the world...

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Is a rebel and heretic,
much like himself…

9. …what waits for him beyond the Xanadu
and the dazzling court of Khubilai Khan?

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“Callous executions, one-eyed camel drivers, corruption, sin a heart-
wrenching love story, dark secrets…its the richness of the prose itself that
truly made this historical ear come alive.”
Historical Novel Review

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“ ... good and evil, love and hate, sin and goodness, and much, much
more ... Utterly absorbing and captivating!” History and Women

12. Silk Road by Colin Falconer
Available now at:
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Colin Falconer please visit:
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Colin Falconer
Colin Falconer has published over 40 books in
the last 26 years. HAREM was an enormous
bestseller in Germany, selling over 200,000
copies.
AZTEC stayed on the bestseller lists in Mexico
for four months.
He is a bestseller in Eastern Europe and his
work has sold into translation in 23 countries.
He likens his fiction most closely to Ken Follett
- books with romance and high adventure,
drawn from many periods of history.