BALLANTINE BOOKS · NEW YORK Copyright © 1989 by Robert Shea All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-92181 ISBN: 0-345-35933-X Manufactured in the United States of America First Edition: April 1989 [1] [1] Prologue Prologue A summary of The Saracen Book One, Land of the Infidel A summary of The Saracen Book One, Land of the Infidel A.D. April 12, 1264 / 4th day of Jumada, A.H. 662 A.D. April 12, 1264 / 4th day of Jumada, A.H. 662 A.D. A.H. Feverish, his arrow-wounded leg throbbing, Daoud ibn Abdallah lies in bed after a night of battle and defeat. As dawn lights the eggshell-white windowpanes in his room, he recalls the events that led him to this bitter hour. Daoud was born to an English crusading family that had settled in Palestine. Captured by Muslims as a child, he was taken to El Kahira, Cairo, chief city of Egypt, and selected for the Mamelukes, the elite corps of slave warriors gathered from all parts of the Middle East to serve the sultans of El Kahira.
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