Round the Galley Fire (1890)

An Islamic terrorist launches a bloody search for a heretic Christian gospel.Why? To prove Christ never rose from the dead and to poison the Christian French Republic and subject France to the rule of Islam. How? This forbidden gospel reveals where the body of Christ lies hidden in Southern France. Or so he believes.Efrim Hussein Allawy’s search leads him to a lovely woman whose Cathar ancestors worshiped the forbidden gospel. He stalks her and closes in, but then is confronted by an American tourist who risks his life to save her. The two men clash in a series of struggles from the Caverns of Lombrive near the Spanish border to a clifftop castle called Montsegur. But Efrim is surprised by an unsuspected adversary, his own accomplice and abused lover, Magdalena, a saboteur and guerilla fighter in the Basque Separatist Movement.