The Heretic's Secret: Single Volume Edition

"…a brave book, an unsettling book, and one that is very much needed at this time."—The Globe and Mail

"…an astonishingly nuanced and masterfully told story…"—Quill & Quire

Not all the Crusades were fought on the far edges of Christendom. In the thirteenth century, a bloody Holy War was fought against a sect of heretical Christians, the Cathars, who lived in Languedoc around the modern city of Toulouse. The war lasted decades and tens of thousands were murdered, mutilated or thrown on vast bo...