Robert Hirsch’s epic trilogy has sold to Luthando Coeur!

Robert Hirsch’s epic trilogy has sold to Luthando Coeur!

Robert Hirsch’s epic novel Promise of the Black Monks and its two sequels Hammer of God and Horde of Fools have been acquired by Luthando Coeur. The story of a young man who is predestined to be the catalyst of war. In the same league as The Thorn Birds, Tristan Saint-Germain is torn between his heart and the church, what he knows to be his true love and the other a farce.

It opens your eyes to the corruptness of organized religion; the control-through-fear they had then and do now, and the unique power rulers of that time had which influence us to this day. Although fiction, Hirsch has done a remarkable job of incorporating the facts to make this a most believable story.

Promise of the Black Monks

            Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, the fate of seven year old Tristan Saint-Germain is thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy.  Then, abandoned by his mother who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four year old brother find themselves thrown into the monastic world of the Benedictine Black Monks of Cluny, France.  Under the tutelage of Grand Prior Odo de Lagery, who one day will ascend to the very pinnacle of power within the Catholic Church in Rome, Tristan develops into an academic and linguistic prodigy by the age of twelve and becomes known as the Promise of the Black Monks.   Tristan’s unusual talents become useful to the Benedictines as well as to Rome, and the boy soon finds himself pulled into the visceral power struggle between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Heinrich IV as they mercilessly wage spiritual, political and military war upon each other to claim supremacy over the continent of Europe.

The sequel, Hammer of God, takes you on Tristan’s journey from the time he becomes a Black Monk of Cluny and a spy for the Pope, to the dawning of the crusades in 1097; a timeless tale that leaves you wanting more.

“Ah,” cried the Hermit, “I told that boy he was dangerous, that he would plant the seeds of war!” 

“Yee-hee-hee!” cackled Duxia in reply, “and I told him he was cursed at birth… and even asked him what it is he wanted, and how many would die as he strived to seek it!”

The third in the series, A Horde of Fools, gets Tristan tangled up in Peter the Hermit's Peasant's Crusade where over 50,000 peasants marched from France to Byzantium to fight the Turks and recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.

Hirsch’s first novel, Contrition, (JournalStone Publishing, 2012) portrays the forces of good and evil vying for the salvation or destruction of present day Gulf Springs, Louisiana.

Robert Hirsch received his undergraduate degree from Cameron University and began teaching history and French. Having earned his Master’s Degree at the University of Southern Mississippi and Doctoral Degree from Nova Southeastern University of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, he served as the superintendent of the Ocean Springs School District on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and is now retired and a full-time author. www.robertehirsch.com

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com

Published by Luthando Coeur www.luthandocoeur.com (release 2015)