Richie Cathar‎'‎s father‎,‎ Alaric‎,‎ was a renaissance man‎:‎ an intellectual‎,‎ explorer‎,‎ archaeologist and historian‎.‎ He was also a man of the sixties‎:‎ a fantasist‎,‎ absentee parent and drug abuser‎.‎ Alaric named his son after his hero‎,‎ Richard‎,‎ Coeur de Lion‎,‎ but left him little when he died apart from conflicting memories‎.‎ Now Richie‎,‎ thirty‎-something‎,‎ is in search of his own role‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎Following his father‎'‎s trail to the Holy Land to research the Art of the Medieval Latin Kingdom‎,‎ Richie‎'‎s quest ‎- to uncover the fate of Christianity‎'‎s most sacred relic and the truth about his father ‎- takes him from the high‎-table intrigue of Oxford to the imposing Crusader castles of Jordan‎,‎ and into a passionate love affair with Noor‎,‎ a Canadian‎-Arab journalist‎,‎ whose fate will become entwined with Richie‎'‎s own‎.‎ Shot through with Justin Cartwright‎'‎s trademark sharp observation and heartbreaking drama‎,‎ Lion Heart is a thrilling‎,‎ romantic and original work from one of our finest novelists‎.‎