Byzantine pilgrimage
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Byzantine pilgrimage
The royal prosecutor investigates an accusation of murder
When Petr of Michalovice, returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, is accused of murder and sentenced to death in Constantinople, the influential Order of Saint John intervenes. Through bribery, they manage to get Emperor Michael to allow a representative of the Czech king to re-investigate the crime. Given the complex political situation, the emperor cannot afford to anger Přemysl as well. And so, a Czech delegation sets off for Byzantium, which of course includes Oldřich of Chlum. The emperor grants him the authority to investigate, but in a world built on intrigue and betrayal, the royal prosecutor must constantly walk the line between life and death...
Vlastimil Vondruška
After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the National Museum. During that time, he published more than fifty scientific studies on the history of material culture and several academic books. He currently lives near Bezděz and devotes himself exclusively to literature and historical journalism. To date, he has published around eighty historical novels and detective stories, four books for young people, and, with his wife Alena, two dozen popular science books. Several of his titles have been published abroad. According to statistics from the National Library, he has been the most-read Czech author in Czech libraries in recent years, having sold 2 million printed books and over 100,000 audiobooks. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g., the IBBY prize, the UČS prize, an honorary Mensa award, and readers' choice awards from the MOBA publishing house). His novel The Hussite Epic was named Bestseller of the Year in 2015. He received the Krameria Award from the Association of Independent Media for his journalism. In 2017, he received a state award for literature.
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