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The Ring of Kékkő Castle
In the tumultuous year of 1634, Bálint Felföldi starts a quest to find the lost Ring of King Matthias Corvinus in the wild lands of the Hungarian Borderlands where the remnants of the once great Hungarian kingdom mix with the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires. At the center of this tale of adventure and intrigue is Bálint, the son of a Hungarian mother of the Székely frontier guards of the Carpathian Mountains and Scottish soldier-of-fortune who came to Hungary to serve the Prince of Transylvania.On his quest, he has adventures and overcoming obstacles, hardships, and foes that seek to undermine his efforts. The novel wishes to pay tribute to the Hussar and Hajdú warriors of the Hungarian Valiant Order of the Borderland who had been gloriously blocking the Ottoman Empire’s expansion into Europe for centuries.
176 pages, Paperback
Published October 16, 2018
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January 9, 2021
An entertaining adventure story in a setting that I am interested in, Hungary in the 17th century. Our clever, fearless hero Balint Felfoldi travels through the dangerous Ottoman occupied Hungarian territories on a quest to reach the Kekko (Bluestone) Castle and retrieve his Scottish father's inheritance. The author is a university professor in Budapest and expert in Hungarian History. The book has a strong sense of place and time, but there were a lot of references and terms that were unfamiliar. A glossary would have helped.
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