John, the hero of this historical fiction, is a Huguenot teenager who has escaped the vicious persecution in France by fleeting to The Netherlands. he now returns to the dreaded country with a secret mission from the Dutch government.
During his journey through France, he encounters one precarious situation after another as he attempts to fulfill his own personal mission of liberating his beloved father. Many historical facts about the suffering Protestant church in France are interwoven throughout the easily read novel.
