内容简介：
The year is 1089, a time when Muslim armies rule the Middle East, Africa and Spain, and threaten the shores of southern France. Anxious Christians, West and East, frantically conspire to unite forces for the defense of Christendom. And a Benedictine monk by the name of Ramiro is unwittingly thrust into the tempest.The powerful Abbot of Cluny sends Ramiro on a secret assignment to Jerusalem, giving him a mysterious cross to deliver. But his long journey is thwarted by hired assassins, kings and emirs, slave-traders and highwaymen, barbarians and mamluks - and a carpenter's daughter who haunts his dreams. Hunted down by a Turk warrior, Ramiro rushes into the last leg of his journey only to encounter a new enemy... the bloodthirsty knights of Europe. And when the persevering monk finally arrives in Jerusalem, he is shocked to discover that his cross has an entirely unexpected meaning - a meaning that could cost him his life...