Jan Guillou
Swedish author and journalist, born 1944, best known for his espionage thrillers featuring Carl Hamilton and his historical Arn Magnusson (Crusades) novels.
Books
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1. Vägen Till Jerusalem
A coming-of-age historical novel set in 12th-century Scandinavia and the Crusader states, following Arn Magnusson, a noble youth whose passionate romance and a violent mistake lead to a sentence of enforced monastic penance; trained by monks and later absorbed into the Knights Templar, he is transformed by discipline and combat, traveling to the Holy Land where he matures into a skilled commander whose personal fate becomes entwined with the larger political, religious and military struggles of the era.