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Title: The Saracen: The Holy War

Author: Robert Shea

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THE CHARGE
TOWARD DESTINY

Daoud slung his bow across his back and drew his long, curving saif from
the scabbard. The noonday sun flashed on it as he held it high. His men
roamed and brandished their own swords.

The band had caught up with them, and the trumpets and hautboys screamed
death to the enemy while the kettledrums rumbled.

There was nothing left to protect Charles d'Anjou now. There was not
even time for the French leader to run. He seemed to know it. He had his
sword out and he held up a white shield with a red cross.

Urging the Arabian on, shouting the name of God, Daoud raced toward
triumph....

_Also by Robert Shea:_

ILLUMINATUS! (with Robert Anton Wilson)

SHIKE: TIME OF THE DRAGONS

SHIKE: LAST OF THE ZINJA

ALL THINGS ARE LIGHTS*

THE SARACEN: LAND OF THE INFIDEL*

*Published by Ballantine Books

THE SARACEN:
THE HOLY
WAR

ROBERT SHEA

BALLANTINE BOOKS . NEW YORK

Copyright (C) 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

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Variant
spellings remain as printed, whilst i