Black Rood: The Celtic Crusades Book Two [Paperback] Lawhead, Stephen

The Second Crusade has failed, and Duncan, a Scottish prince, is rotting in a Syrian prison with only one treasure left — a fragment of the True Cross called the Black Rood. His son Murdo sets out on a brutal journey across medieval Europe and the Holy Land to bring him home, navigating treacherous politics, savage warfare, and the ruins of Christendom's grand ambitions. Stephen Lawhead's second instalment in The Celtic Crusades is a gritty, sprawling historical epic that refuses to romanticise its subject. This is the Crusades through Celtic eyes — violent, disillusioning, and deeply human. For readers who want historical fiction with weight, moral complexity, and prose that doesn't pull punches.