Impressed by the bookish Isidore, Pagan Kidrouk — now
Archdeacon of Carcassonne — hires the boy as his scribe.
Eager to flee a cloistered existence, naive Isidore
quickly discovers that the real world isn't all as the
poets and philosophers claim. The year is 1209, and papal
forcesfrom the north are driving their bloody crusade
against the Cathar hereticsto Carcassonne. With the battle
lines inching ever closer, the world ofFather Pagan, Lord
Roland, and Roland's mysterious brother grows more real to
Isidore — and more terrifying — by the day. The last of
four books inan acclaimed series, PAGAN'S SCRIBE casts the
worldly,wisecracking Pagan in an unexpected role as friend
and mentor to a young soulin need.