He graduated from the University College Hospital Medical School, whereupon he began practicing medicine. Timothy Willocks was born in Cheshire, England, to a working-class family. I’ll see if I can get things caught up a bit.ĭr. Our coverage of his fiction has been scanty on the DMR Blog thus far. Quotes from The Religion by Tim WillocksĪuthor and filmmaker, Tim Willocks, was born on this date in 1957. “He who has not known war has not known God.” Only now could lay any claim to forever.” “Let the morrow bring on what it would, he thought, for it didn't exist. I suspect the base line for the human race is to be suspicious, paranoid and untrusting and therefore all of us are potentially violent.” - Tim Willocks from an interview in 2006 It's so present in the life of the human race. Now, in a spectacular tale of heroism, tragedy, and passion, Tim Willocks revivifies historical fiction."I suppose it would be true to say I'm fascinated by violence. Not since James Clavell has a novelist so powerfully and assuredly plunged readers headlong into another world and time. The Religion is the first book of the Tannhauser Trilogy, and from the first page of this epic account of the last great medieval conflict between East and West, it is clear we are in the hands of a master. He agrees to accompany the lady to Malta, where, amid the most spectacular siege in military history, they must try to find the boy whose name they do not know and whose face they have never seen and pluck him from the jaws of Holy War. The only man with the expertise and daring to help her is a Rabelaisian soldier of fortune, arms dealer, former janissary, and strapping Saxon adventurer by the name of Mattias Tannhauser. The Turks know the knights as the ‘Hounds of Hell.’ The knights call themselves ‘ The Religion.’ In Messina, Sicily, a French countess, Carla La Penautier, seeks passage to Malta in a quest to find the son taken from her at his birth twelve years ago. The largest armada of all time approaches the knights’ Christian stronghold on the island of Malta. Suleiman the Magnificent, emperor of the Ottomans, has declared a jihad against the Knights of Saint John the Baptist. This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us.
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