by Leo Frankowski, Rodger Olsen
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Product Description
Brand new. Number Seven in the Conrad Series.This time, Conrad goes on vacation and sees parts of the world he never imagined when he is taken captive by the Twaregs. Of course, he escapes and leads his armies on a crusade that he did not want to fight. 120,000 words and 230 pages of true old fashioned Conrad Stargard. Some people go to dude ranches or on cruises. Conrad's vacations look a little more like the Second Crusade.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
A return to the strengths of the earlier books, 2007-09-27
Like many fans of the Crosstime Engineer, I wondered for years what would come next and the "Conrad's Search for Rubber" was too oblique an answer. This one returns to the humor, optimism, the "can-do", the overcoming stunning odds, new friends, vague foes, and offbeat historical locales (Timbuktu, the Skeleton Coast, the Moorish empire, etc..) The story's lively while also answering many questions about the remaining Mongol threat, tapping distant resources, etc... It's adult fiction in that economics and logistics matter while solutions are rarely clear and doing the right thing works out. It's Frankowski's most upbeat book since Lord Conrad's Lady many years ago, something that also set his books apart. Well worth the modest price.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Reads like a cross between a rough draft and an outline, 2007-01-02
I'm a huge fan of the Conrad series. I was more than happy to buy this book off the author's personal web page, just to see how Conrad was doing. Unfortunately there are many glaring problems with this latest installment.
First, this is not a finished product, apparently due to lack of a publisher. There are uncountable errors throughout the text, not just typo's but also the wrong word, pronoun, or character's name. Some events are disjointed, unexplained, or just don't make sense. Some sections are fully fleshed out, and bring the reader right into the action and the character's motivation, while other sections are the merest outline, with just bare facts listed in chronological order.
Still, these technical problems could be overlooked if that was the price we had to pay to enjoy another Conrad adventure. Except that Conrad has changed. He's become pompous, conceited, and spoiled. He refuses to listen to the Pope, a personal friend of his who saved his life repeatedly earlier in the series. Conrad goes to a neighboring kingdom and makes a point of being as rude as possible to the king, who never did him any real harm. In fact, the whole "I need a vacation from all this" seemed pretty petulant and spoiled.
One of my personal pet peeves though is with geography. Conrad travels along a river for a large part of the book. This is a significant river that is featured prominently on any globe of the world. Conrad follows the river to a mountain range that in actual fact is over a thousand miles from the river. There's a big difference between walking along a river full of water, and walking a thousand miles where water may be hard to find.
Basically, I cannot recommend this book to any but the most addicted of Conrad junkies, and those should be forewarned.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
 Conrad's Latest Adventure, 2006-03-14
The latest Conrad Stargard book is an enjoyable read, but it's not Frankowski's best work. It was some typos and editing problems, but they don't detract from the story.
Conrad is bored; he hasn't faced any new challenges in years, so he decides to go on "Vacation" to points unknown, alone. Not even Conrad Stargard can foresee every possible problem and he finds himself sick, maimed, and enslaved. He always felt that slavery was a crime against God, and being slave didn't change his mind. So Conrad did the sort thing that Conrad does, I don't want to spoil the story, but we get another classic Conrad Stargard book out the situation.
Before Conrad left Poland, the Pope (Ignacio) and the King (Henryk) were trying to order him to "Re-Take" the Holy Lands from the "Infidel Moslems". He refused pointing out that they had Polish Citizen's who were Moslems, so he couldn't see attacking someone based on their religion, and that the Christian Church couldn't "Re-Take" property that they had never owned. He suggested that they "Take" the Holy Land through trade and good works instead. Ignacio and Henryk became very upset about this, and in my opinion forgot who put them on their thrones, so they started the Crusade while Conrad was on "Vacation".
The novel wraps up these loose ends and gives "Uncle Tom" a challenge to overcome that may make life interesting for him and may give us a new book in the future.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
LORD CONRAD'S CRUSADE, 2006-01-18
Leo Frankowski new Conrad adventure Lord Conrad's Crusade is an exciting action pack story about his capture and escape from slavery. In this story Conrad decides the only way to escape slavery is to attack and to conquer his way across North Africa. Freeing slaves along the way become habit forming for Conrad as he builds a new African Corp army of conquest and freedom. Great story and a must read.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Lord Conrad's Crusade, 2006-01-17
I was very happy to find that anouther of the Conrad Starguard books has come out. This book is a pre-publication version, so be aware. Trouble with publishers has caused Leo Frankowski to sell his own version.
That said, I have always enjoyed the Starguard series. Many wonderful adventures, told from several perspectives. I was glad to see a new book from the eyes of Lord Conrad. Being a fan I am aware of the story line and the way in which the books have progressed to this point. I did have some misgivings with the way our hero has developed. Maybe if the book was longer with more atention paid to filling out scenes it would have been better. It seems that Conrad has become more jaded, not just with women but with the average "little" people. He found no problem with killing everyone in villages due to their having slaves. I don't want slavery either, but this had been the world he was in. I would have liked to see some other way for him to win over people, rather than killing everyone. Some of his dialougue seemed similar to the words used by the Mongols in earlier books.
Over all though, a good read, I hope he can continure to provide us with more adventures. I also hope Leo's home and life in TVER Russia go well for him
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