The year is 1543. Iron William Kidd, a former English spy, is knee-deep in trouble. After a mission goes gravely wrong, he is left with badly crippled hands. Held to ransom by the Church, he also has to find the mythical Tears of Christ. The price of failure is his head.However, every country has agents seeking this ancient prize, as The Tears hold a secret that will change the world forever. Unlocking the mystery of The Tears becomes a perilous race against time where there can be only one victor.
This unusual and moving chronicle covers some of the most important battles of the Civil War—Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville—through the stories of the two brigades who confronted each other on the bloody fields ...
Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas H.A. Cody. penitence and tears . ... Gold has not yet been found in the Yukon , but I brought down with me good specimens of iron ore , of which there seems to be a great quantity ...
London that included Blake, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine. After England became embroiled with France and a reactionary witch-hunt set after radical intellectuals and sympathizers with the French Republic, ...