Sympathy for the Devil (English Edition)

Set in 7th Century Europe Brother Morvran, a monk at the Laune Monastery in Ireland recieves a summons from Father Columbanus to go to the Abbey of Luxcuil in France in order to prepare for a special mission. Columbanus is about to found a monastery at Bobbio in order to convert the Lombards from the Arian heresy and Morvran expects that he will accompany him. Instead, he discovers, to his horror, that he is to be sent into the Thuringian Forest to work among the pagan Germans, the people who slaughtered his family. And it is there that he will meet Kragen, Morvran's nemesis. Based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness Morvran and Kragan represent the clash of two different world views with no certainty as to who will win, or who is right.