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The Leper's Return - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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The Leper's Return - 1st Edition/1st Printing

by Jecks, Michael

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ISBN 10
0747221464
ISBN 13
9780747221463
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London: Headline. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0747221464 . A handsome first edition/first printing in Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Michael Jecks directly on the title page; One winter afternoon in 1944, a man returns to his small town in Wales after being gone for thirteen years. The townspeople are both excited and apprehensive to see him, unsure of what to make of him. He is a leper, and everyone in the town knows it.The man has a story to tell. He tells of his experiences during World War II, when he was a prisoner of war in Japan. He tells of the brutality and the starvation he endured, and of the moment, shortly before he was released, when his captors offered him a choice between death and returning to the leper colony where he had been living before he was captured.The Leper's Return is a story of courage, resilience, and hope. It is a story of a man who has been broken but who has also been healed. It is a story of a town that banded together to support one of its own, and of a generation that was forced; 8vo; Signed by Author .

Synopsis

The Knights TemplarThey were warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land—until an avaricious king destroyed the order. One knight, however, escaped the stake, vowing justice for his murdered brothers.A fatal tide of intoleranceWith civil war looming, tensions are high in the town of Crediton—and the foul murder of a local gold merchant and assault on his daughter merely feed the flames. Keeper of the King's Peace and former Knight Templar, Sir Baldwin Furnshill, and his partner, Simon Puttock, bailiff of Lydford, must find the culprit and resist the temptation to quickly condemn the most obvious suspect. But their cool heads may not prevail, for rumors are spreading that suggest the lepers of St. Lawrence's hospital—the shunned outcasts of society—are somehow responsible for Crediton's current ills. And any delay on the part of Furnshill and Puttock in apprehending a killer may well lead to a full-scale slaughter of the despised unfortunates.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Leper's Return - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Jecks, Michael
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0747221464
ISBN 13
9780747221463
Publisher
Headline
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1998
Keywords
Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction / Historical Fiction;

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