The Religion
  • Published: 16 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099581291
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $29.99

The Religion

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Think Gladiator and Game of Thrones with a main character akin to 007 set against the backdrop of the greatest war known to man. This is a gripping action packed adventure.

Our hero, Mattias Tannhauser is a real man: confident, tall, craggily good looking, morally upstanding and a lethal killing machine.

Their god is War. And every god needs his Devil. THE RELIGION

Malta, 1565. The greatest war the world has ever seen is unleashed on the doomed island as the Turks do battle with the Knights. The Knights call themselves The Religion. The Turks call them the Hounds of Hell.

Back in Sicily, the beautiful, rich Carla pines for her bastard son, lost in the bloody inferno across the water.

Enter Mattias Tannhauser – warrior, hero and double agent. Under Carla’s command, he embarks on a death-defying mission to save her son. But can he evade the Inquisition and escape to run the Turkish blockade to victory in time?
  • Published: 16 April 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099581291
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 816
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Tim Willocks

Tim Willocks is a novelist, screenwriter and producer. Translated into twenty languages, his novels include The Religion, Bad City Blues, Green River Rising and Twelve Children of Paris. He has worked with major Hollywood directors, dined at the White House and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate.

Also by Tim Willocks

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Memo From Turner
The Twelve Children of Paris
Bad City Blues
Bloodstained Kings
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Praise for The Religion

Surround-sound entertainment

New York Times

A novel of high adventure, blood, guts and romantic love…as master craftsman, [Willocks] tells his story with extraordinary pace

Literary Review

Starred Review. Willocks strikes gold with this epic account ... In Tannhauser, Willocks has created a dazzling hero whose debut will leave readers eager for the next installment

Publishers Weekly

Macho, sexy, profoundly bloody and a wonderful adventure story

Sunday Telegraph

Stone walls crumble, war machines rumble, bodies fill the ditches, and once in a while there’s some terrific sex. A long, bloody, vastly entertaining story

Kirkus Reviews

With a slow-burning pace and a knack for a cliffhanger, Willocks builds the tension terrifically amid graphic slaughter and velvet-gloved treachery

Time Out

A classic

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