The Savage Green (The Lost Templar Book 1)

In the tradition of authors Robert E. Howard and Lester Dent, J.W. Bradley's The Lost Templar series harkens back to the days of dime store pulps and campy serials. Rife with bloody action and strange locales, the novelettes feature Simon Birke, an Englishman born into privilege, who leaves all he knows behind in order to serve the Lord as a humble Knight of the Templar.
The Savage Green
Even as Jerusalem stands on the brink of falling to the mighty Saracen armies of Saladin, Simon Birke is sent on a mysterious quest to retrieve a legendary relic of immense power. Armed with only the vaguest of instructions, the knight must recover the prize from a distant shore and attempt to fight his way back with it in time to save the Holy City from the Muslim hordes, but what Simon discovers there, will drastically change the young Christian warrior forever.