Alamut Vladimir Bartol English Books•Fiction - Literature
The Last Devil to Die•The Bullet That Missed•The Man Who Died•The Thursday Murder Club•The First Men in the Moon•The War of the Worlds•The Time Machine•The World Set Free•When The Sleeper Awakes•The Island of Dr.Moreau•The Invisible Man•Fascinating Short Stories
Alamut reimagines the story of the 11th-century Ismaili leader Ḥasan ibn Ṣabbāḥ, the Old Man of the Mountain who founded the Islamic order called the Assassins—elite suicide attackers motivated by religious passion and a carefully nurtured vision of the paradise that awaited them.