“Macho, sexy, profoundly bloody and concerned with spiritual salvation. This wondeful adventure story is also an unavoidably resonant meditation on the power of religion to incite war... The Religion contains some beautiful prose.”──The Sunday Telegraph
“With a slow-burning pace and a knack for a cliffhanger, Willocks builds the tension terrifically amid graphic slaughter and velvet-gloved treachery . . . paints its broad strokes with inventiveness and intelligence.”── Time Out
“A gripping story with reliable factual underpinnings.”──Times Literary Supplement
“A novel of high adventure, blood, guts and romantic love . . . as master craftsman, [Willocks] tells his story with extraordinary pace.”──Literary Review
“This sprawling epic brims with religious passions, political intrigue and steamy romance. A thrilling plot.”──Library Journal