Mal'ta, XVI vek. Mal'chika Niko pohishchayut rabotorgovcy i uvozyat v Severnuyu Afriku. U ego sestry Marii dve mechty. Vo-pervyh, sbezhat' s ostrova, gde nikto i pal'cem ne shevel'nul, chtoby spasti ee brata. Odnako vtoruyu ee mechtu, kazhetsya, osushchestvit' eshche slozhnee: v obshchestve, gde v shkoly dopuskayutsya tol'ko dvoryanskie synov'ya, devochka iz prostoy sem'i hochet nauchit'sya chitat'. A v Parizhe rastet graf Kristian de Vris. S rozhdeniya on prinyat v orden gospital'erov, no serdce mal'chika otdano medicine... Cherez neskol'ko let vsem troim predstoit sygrat' svoyu rol' v Velikoy osade Mal'ty, kogda na kroshechnom ostrove stolknutsya civilizacii i reshitsya sud'ba Evropy. Ot nevol'nich'ih rynkov Alzhira i sultanskogo seralya v Stambule do shumnyh naberezhnyh Parizha i rycarskogo forta na Mal'te: «Mech i yatagan» - odna iz luchshih avantyurno-priklyuchencheskih sag, roman o vechnoy bor'be religiy i kul'tur Vostoka i Zapada. Vpervye na russkom!
Über den Autor David Ball
David Ballhas guided criminal defense and civil plaintiff 's cases for 32 years, including on more than 50 capital cases. He's written four bestselling advocacy books, teaches CLEs and public defenders' offices and the JAG Corps at Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg, and taught for Federal District 1 judges. Trained in science, engineering, and research, he's also spent a large part of his career in professional theater as a director and playwright, and his theater students have gone on to win Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys. He received NCAJ's Charles L. Becton trial advocacy teaching award and taught at such law schools as Duke (Senior Lecturer), the University of North Carolina, Campbell (Adjunct), Loyola (Los Angeles), and the University of Minnesota. He's been part of a research project into criminal juror decision-making funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and conducted by Duke University's Institute for Brain Sciences (DIBS).