When his old friend and former fencing instructor dies suspiciously, Agent Henry Bride uncovers a string of deaths connected only by a piece of software. Clue after clue puts Bride closer to an intricate network of death that includes a major assassination as only its first step. With the clock running out, Bride is faced with a villain no one has heard of, a killer who isn't exactly human, and a plot that will require every ounce of his strength and cunning to survive, as Agent Bride must prove there is nothing mightier than the sword.

A legion of elite, monastic fighting men, the Knights Templar were the most fearsome warriors of the Crusades, writing their legend in the gory sands of the Middle East with the blood of their enemies and their own. It was they who took the Holy Land, and they who held it. Answering only to the Pope, they bowed before no king or crown. Returned from the Crusades and stationed in Paris, Brother William has grown disillusioned with the Order and plans to leave it. But as their Paris stronghold is seized by royal troops, William leads a small band of Templars in a desperate escape, fleeing with them into the night. Alternately fighting and running, struggling to understand the world that has turned on them so viciously, they cross paths with a brutalized young prostitute. Open and proud about her sins, she ushers William and his comrades toward dark truths about the city festering around them, about its rulers and the church they've sworn to defend-all in a race to escape that will leave the streets of Paris bloody.

Mysteriously flung across the void to the distant planet Mars, Captain John Carter of Virginia finds himself a captive of giant, four-armed green savages. But when he meets fellow prisoner Dejah Thoris, the beautiful alien princess of the City of Helium, he realizes the only way to protect her from the cruel green barbarians is to escape. With sword and superhuman strength born of the lesser gravity of Mars, John Carter sets out to cross the exotic and dangerous alien world and return her home, with the fate of two kingdoms and the future of the entire planet at stake The original Science Fiction epic The Legendary Planet 100th anniversary edition features beautiful digital restorations of the first edition's art.