The novel is a fictional biography of the French poet François Villon, a poet and brigand who was sentenced to death, commuted in 1463 to exile from Paris. From this moment on, his traces are lost. It is unknown when he died. In prison, Villon is visited by an envoy of Louis XI and offers to carry out a secret mission, the purpose of which is to help spread free thought, which is hated by the Vatican. Villon's journey begins. The streets of Paris, the squares of Florence and the Holy Land: the desert, a monastery lost in the mountains, sacred Safed with its scribes, the dungeons of Jerusalem...Raphael Gerusalmi is a French writer. Born in 1954 in Paris, graduated from the Sorbonne. Served in the Israeli army. Sells antique and rare books in Tel Aviv. He attracted the attention of the public and critics with his historical diary novel about Vienna after the Anschluss, Saving Mozart (2012). Brotherhood of the Book Hunters is his second novel.