num_pages: 391
description: 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.
language: English
title: The French Executioner
titlecomplete: The French Executioner (French Executioner, #1)
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, British Literature, Canada, Tudor Period, Historical Fiction, 16th Century, Unfinished, Fantasy
ratings_count: 618
series: French Executioner
publisher: McArthur & Company