The second sleep A novel.

From the international bestselling author of Fatherland and Munich , a gripping mystery and a fascinating cautionary tale. "All civilizations consider themselves invulnerable; history warns us that none is." 1468. A young priest, Christopher Fairfax, arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with ancient artefacts-coins, fragments of glass, human bones-which the old pars...