MATTIAS TANNHAUSER: WARRIOR
The Religion by Tim Willocks (Sarah Crichton Books, 2007)
STATS:
A Rabelaisian soldier of fortune, arms dealer, former janissary, and strapping Saxon adventurer.
Tall and broad shouldered, Tannhauser’s every movement is like some primal dream, lithe and at once alert, yet still caught in the toils of another world. His gaze is lucent blue, framed by golden hair swept down over his forehead. The gleaming eyes evoke an untamed creature regarding a world too civilized and cramped to call home.
LEADING LADY:
French Countess, Carla La Penautier, a slight woman with green eyes rimmed by ink with thin black circlets. Her hair is the color of honey, shot through with yellow, as if a Norman conqueror had left his seed in her blood. She loved once when she was very young. That love produced a child, taken from her by her father. She never saw the child again. Sold away shortly afterwards into a loveless marriage that produced no children, she spent twelve years cloistered from life. When her husband dies, it’s time to find her missing son. The only man with the expertise to help her is Mattias Tannhauser. When she first meets Tannhuaser, she’s surprised by the sexual arousal he evokes in her. He stirs her blood and something she had long come to believe dead.
What becomes of this attraction between a Countess and a lowly Saxon adventurer and warrior? It’s a long read, but well worth it in the end.
When they first meet, Carla has been playing a viola:
“The viloa da gamba, yes? This is your instrument.”
“It was the passion of my childhood and youth.”
“I commend you on your choice,” he said. “I’ve admired the music of the gamba in the salons of
Mattias Tannhauser is a true warrior of the heart and soul. When he agrees to take on the task of finding a boy no one has seen since birth, his real adventure just begins. The back drop for this story is the battle for
Would you follow a man hired to bring back your son into the middle of a battle? Is any man worth that? Even a Saxon Warrior?
February 21st, 2008
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February 21st, 2008 at 11:21 am
She sounds like a warrior herself. I don’t know if I would have that courage, but I’d like to think so.
February 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
She’s following not only him, but the belief he can find what she seeks–knowingly her son, unknowingly a great love.
February 21st, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Mattias sounds like a unique warrior. I think I’d do anything to find my child, including going into the middle of a bloody war. Or I’m like Virna and would like to think I would anyway.