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Legend of Luke
The Legend of Luke
is a novel by the British author Brian Jacques, and is the twelfth book
in the Redwall series. It was published in 1999.
A New York Times bestseller, The Legend of Luke is about Martin the
Warrior's father, Luke, and a bloodwrathed squirrel named Ranguvar Foeseeker.
Together they free all the slaves on the slaveship Goreleech, but die
trying. The Goreleech is smashed upon the tall rocks near the northern
shore, and gets jammed between them. The entire bow falls into the ocean,
leaving the stern to stay in the rocks which becomes a home to two mice
who were Luke's friends, a hare named Beau, and an old mouse named Vurg,
who was Luke's best friend.