01507cam a2200349 4500 126604850 TxAuBib 20130201120000.0 030312s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2002073059 9780316602051 0316602051 (OCoLC)50091810 DLC DLC DLC TxAuBib Patterson, James, 1947- The Jester : a novel / by James Patterson ; and Andrew Gross. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 2003. 457 p. ; 24 cm. An innkeeper in a French village oppressed by the local nobleman. To earn his freedom, Hugh de Luc joins the Crusades for a torturous, bloody march toward Jerusalem. The story ends with his escape back to France. Back home he finds that his wife has been taken captive by the nobleman, and his infant son slain. Seeking his wife and revenge, Hugh adopts the guise of a jester in order to enter to the nobleman's castle, where he begins to fall in love with a young noblewoman ... 20100304. Fools and jesters Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Nobility Fiction. Crusades Fiction. Relics Fiction. France History Medieval period, 987-1515 Fiction. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. Gross, Andrew. TXWIT