Volume #2 in the Crusades trilogy. Bohemund and his nephew head east to the lands of the Byzantine Empire as part of the greatest military expedition of medieval times: the Papal Crusade. But the Normans never pass into a new territory without an eye to the notion of gaining land and power, and this is no exception. Meanwhile, on his own mission to wrest land for himself, the wily emperor Comnenus will play the deciding role in Bohemund's story.