The Saracen Blade Author:Frank Yerby It was the bright, teeming world of the 13th century; a world of fanatic and heretic, Christian and Saracen, Jew and Catholic, knight and serf. In it, Pietro was a wanderer. Part heretic, part Crusader, part knight-errant, he moved through Sicily, Italy, France, Germany, the Holy Land and Egypt. — He had many enemies and many loves. Quick and k... more »een as a Saracen blade, hot-blooded, loyal and brave, he fought his way upward from serfdom to high rank, and finally returned from his adventures to the arms of the noble woman who had been his first and greatest love.« less