| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This all makes a gripping start, but then there is a very long (over long) flashback to Outremer (a large area including the present-day Israel and Lebanon) back in 1148 (this unfortunately takes up as much as a third of the book) which explains how Josse's father had been fighting in the Crusades when he had been given a magnificent jewel, the Eye of Jerusalem, that had magical protective and hea
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