title: The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France
author:  Eric Jager 
description: Advance Praise for<i> The Last Duel</i><br />This high-suspense, sanguinary tale ensnares readers. . . . The tension is nearly unendurable. . . . Sex, savagery, and high-level political maneuvers energize a splendid piece of popular history.<br /><i>Kirkus Reviews<br /></i><br />An enthralling story that reads like fiction but is based on reliable sources. A world of passion, cruelty, and mismanaged law.<br />Norman Cantor, author of<i> Inventing the Middle Ages</i> and<i> In the Wake of the Plague<br /></i><br />If you read only one book about the Middle Ages, Eric Jagers thriller is the one to read. <br />Steven Ozment, author of<i> A Mighty Fortress</i> and<i> The Burgermeisters Daughter<br /></i><br />Eric Jager uses the historical record to marvelous effect when recounting the riveting story of two men locked in mortal combat. . . . Two worlds duel in this fascinating portrait of an end of an age-the feudal aristocracy and the chivalric courtand who we deem the true victor is brilliantly left open to interpretation in Jagers engrossing tale.<br />Margaret F. Rosenthal, author of<i> The Honest Courtesan<br /></i><br />A spectacular panorama of the late Middle Ages. . . a historical thriller that leaves us with the impression of having known and lived in another world. It combines the vivid erudition of Barbara Tuchmans<i> Distant Mirror</i> with the suspense and drama of Umberto Ecos<i> Name of the Rose</i>. Eric Jager has invented a genre that reminds us that human nature has not changed very much over the ages and that sometimes reality is bigger than life and more riveting than fiction.<br />R. Howard Bloch, Augustus R. Street Professor of French, Yale University
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  Duels
  
  
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  Every Sort
  
  
  A Pride and Prejudice Variation
  
  
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  Sarah Brown
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 Sarah Brown
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  ISBN-13: 9781071440278
  
  
  
  
  
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  Prologue
  
  
  Chapter One:
  
  
  Three Months Earlier
  
  
  Chapter Two
  
  
  Chapter Three
  
  
  Chapter Four
  
  
  Chapter Five
  
  
  Chapter Six
  
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  
  Epilogue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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  Oh, God. This was a bad idea. What was I thinking? And where had John gotten
  to? It was his sister we were rescuing. How could he run off after just two
  villains, when he