The Penyghent Blood

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Author: Roger Ratcliffe ISBN: 9781871774078
Publisher: Aire Press Publication: February 7, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Roger Ratcliffe
ISBN: 9781871774078
Publisher: Aire Press
Publication: February 7, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

A fast-paced, stunningly prophetic thriller about a grotesque attack by Islamist militants, The Penyghent Blood predated 9/11 by more than two years. Osama Bin Laden was the clear model for the novel’s terrorist mastermind, and in the aftershock of 9/11 the book was withdrawn from sale. It was finally republished in 2013.

The Penyghent Blood follows crime reporter Alice Corvin’s progressively frantic investigation of an horrific plot against Britain and the discovery that her newspaper will never print the story.

Locations include the old English city of York and the wild landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with dramatic cross-country chase sequences evoking John Buchan’s thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie North by Northwest.  A magnificent ancestral castle and priceless medieval sword underpin the novel’s background theme of the terrorists continuing the war between Muslim and Christian worlds which began during the blood-soaked Crusades.

In one of many chilling coincidences between the story and subsequent events, shortly after 9/11 a direct link between the Crusades and the attacks was made in an emotional speech by former president Bill Clinton.

The Penyghent Blood was originally published in 1999 under the author pseudonym of Robert Kelder.

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A fast-paced, stunningly prophetic thriller about a grotesque attack by Islamist militants, The Penyghent Blood predated 9/11 by more than two years. Osama Bin Laden was the clear model for the novel’s terrorist mastermind, and in the aftershock of 9/11 the book was withdrawn from sale. It was finally republished in 2013.

The Penyghent Blood follows crime reporter Alice Corvin’s progressively frantic investigation of an horrific plot against Britain and the discovery that her newspaper will never print the story.

Locations include the old English city of York and the wild landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with dramatic cross-country chase sequences evoking John Buchan’s thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps and Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie North by Northwest.  A magnificent ancestral castle and priceless medieval sword underpin the novel’s background theme of the terrorists continuing the war between Muslim and Christian worlds which began during the blood-soaked Crusades.

In one of many chilling coincidences between the story and subsequent events, shortly after 9/11 a direct link between the Crusades and the attacks was made in an emotional speech by former president Bill Clinton.

The Penyghent Blood was originally published in 1999 under the author pseudonym of Robert Kelder.

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