For Nico s beloved sister, Maria, his loss fires her hatred for the knights who did nothing to save him and her dreams of escape from her stifling home. Renamed Asha, plotting his escape even as he swears allegiance to the god of his masters and is schooled in the arts of culture and war, the innocent boy will be transformed into one of the Sultan s deadliest commanders. For one of its sons, the hand of violence strikes swiftly, when young Nicolo Borg is seized by Barbary slavers and launched on a remarkable journey to the court of the supreme ruler of the Muslim world. John, Malta will become the stage upon which the fate of the world turns. The Mediterranean, the sixteenth century: Lying squarely in the midst of the vital sea lanes between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire in the East, and ruled by the ancient Order of the Knights of St. Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman the Magnificent to the dark hold of a slave ship racing across the sea, here is a dazzling story of love and valor, innocence and identity, an epic novel of the clash of civilizations on a barren island where the future was forged. Jon Ironfire's Odin look may not be a coincidence, but a direct nod to Sins of Sinister keeping close parallels to the myths of Asgard.1 Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War By David Ball Ironfire: An Epic Novel of Love and War By David Ball From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today. Additionally, the destruction of Arakko, its own Ragnarök, is the catalyst that sets the next millennium in motion. This is reflected further in Moira McTaggert's central role during the X-Men's Krakoa Era, and her clones' key to Sinister's plans. Going further, Ragnarök itself is not simply the apocalypse of Nordic myth, but a never-ending cycle of death and rebirth - gods die and are reborn for all eternity. Many of the mutants who have survived the last thousand years, like Ironfire, are now nothing short of gods. Meanwhile, Jon Ironfire is accompanied by a descendant of wolves, a hulking pit bull-like dog. Odin has a close association with wolves: his fate to die at the hands of the Fenris Wolf during Ragnarök is famous, and he keeps a pair of the beasts as pets. The Jon Ironfire from a thousand years into the future's uncanny resemblance to the All-Father runs even deeper.
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