Buddha's Thunderbolt: A Novel - Was the Wizard Merlin a Buddhist?

What if everything you knew about the Wizard Merlin was wrong? What if Merlin was actually a Buddhist monk prone to hallucinations, who was taken as a slave by the Huns and transported to Europe? Buddha's Thunderbolt tells the tale of this most peculiar man, a 5th Century rationalist, who regards magic as bunk, druids as idiots, and knights as glorified thugs. The last thing he wants is for the inquisitive orphan boy he is mentoring to become a king.