In this award-winning novel, you'll travel through strange but realmedieval events with a heroic trio on a quest that's both weird andwonderful. And that's not all:  

• March across medieval Europe with an army of misfits led by a boy prophet. 
• Train with stoned and unlikely killers who terrorize Middle East rulers. 
• Peek inside Hassan i Sabbah's ancient library of mystical and profane literature.
• Touch the petrified body of the world's first man, Adam.
• Get juicy gossip from a fresh, fast-talking, funny vegetable.  

In their search for the fabled Lost Stone of Eden, our unlikely heroescross Europe and the Mediterranean with the Children's Crusade, hijack a caravan in the Sahara desert, live with hashish-fueled Assassins in the mountains of Persia and rediscover paradise on the island of Bahrain.