It is 1536 and the expert swordsman Jean Rombaud has been
brought over from France by Henry VIII to behead his wife,
Anne Boleyn. But on the eve of her execution Rombaud swears
a vow to the ill-fated queen - to bury her six-fingered
hand, symbol of her rumoured witchery, at a sacred
crossroads. Yet in a Europe ravaged by religious war, the
hand of this infamous Protestant icon is so powerful a relic
that many will kill for it...
From a battle between slave galleys to a Black Mass in a
dungeon, through the hallucinations of St Anthony's Fire to
the fortress of an apocalyptic Messiah, Jean seeks to honour
his vow.
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