A King's Ransom

About this book

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Lionheart comes the dramatic sequel telling of the last dangerous years of Richard Couer de Lions life. This long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard Coeur de Lion. Taken captive by the Holy Roman Emperor while en route homein violation of the papal decree protecting all crusadershe was to spend fifteen months imprisoned much of it in the notorious fortress at Trefils from which few men ever left alive while Eleanor of Aquitaine moved heaven and earth to raise the exorbitant ransom. For the five years remaining to him betrayals intrigues wars and illness were ever present. So were his infidelities perhaps a pattern set by his fathers faithlessness to Eleanor. But the courage compassion and intelligence of this warrior king became the stuff of legend and A Kings Ransom brings the man and his world fully and powerfully alive.