Echoes of Betrayal - Paladin's Legacy

Zusatztext PRAISE FOR ELIZABETH MOON   Kings of the North   “Moon’s characters navigate an intricate maze of alliances and rivalries. . . . Close attention to military detail gives the action convincing intensity.” —The Star-Ledger   “Her storytelling is as electrifying as ever! and her readers should be delighted with this new vista of a well-known world.” —Booklist   Oath of Fealty   “A triumphant return to the fantasy world she created . . . No one writes fantasy quite like Moon.” —The Miami Herald   “Ranks alongside Andre Norton’s Witch World and Tolkien’s Middle-earth for invention! deeds of valor! and battles of good against evil.”—Jack Campbell Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Moon  grew up on the Texas border, served three years of active duty in the USMC (1968–71), and now lives with her husband, also a veteran, near Austin, Texas. She has published more than twenty-five novels, including Nebula Award winner  The Speed of Dark,  Hugo finalist  Remnant Population,  and the enduring epic fantasy series The Chronicles of Paksenarrion. She has published more than fifty short-fiction pieces in anthologies and magazines and in four of her own short-fiction collections, most recently  Moon Flights  and  Deeds of Honor . When not writing, Moon enjoys photographing native plants and wildlife, knitting socks, and cooking. Klappentext The action continues fast and furious in this third installment of Moon's celebrated return to the fantasy world of the paladin Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter. CHAPTER ONE Aarenis Arvid Semminson, lying naked, bound, and bruised on the cold ground somewhere in northwestern Aarenis, reflected that honor among thieves was a myth. Valdaire's Guildmaster had taken everything he had: clothes, weapons, gold, his Guildmaster symbol, and that very damning--in the Guildmaster's eyes--letter of safe passage from the Marshal-General. In return, the Guildmaster had indeed found a room for Arvid, as he'd offered: Arvid had spent several very unpleasant days in the Guildhouse cellar before his kteknik gnome companion Dattur, worried by his absence, had tried to rescue him, only to be captured himself. After some additional time in the Guild's cellar, they'd both been dumped into the lower compartment of a trade-wagon and driven out of the city--several days out, in what direction Arvid had no notion--in the untender care of journeymen enforcers who intended to pry every detail of information from them both before killing them. Now the journeymen tossed dice for first choice of his weapons, all the while loudly discussing what they intended to do with him. Certain tools were, they'd said, heating in the coals. He would be warm then, one jeered, throwing a hot coal that bounced off his back before he felt more than the sting. He heard the fire crackling somewhere behind him. Smoke fragrant with the scent of roasting meat curled past his nose, but where he lay only cold wind caressed him, and his belly cramped with hunger. He should have stayed north of the mountains once he was sure the necklace had already gone south. He should have realized that his long absence from Verella had given his second in command--Harsin, with his false smiles--a chance to seize power and proclaim him a traitor to the Guild because he had gone to do the Marshal-General's bidding. He would have Harsin's liver roasted on skewers if he got out of this alive, which--at the moment--seemed unlikely. What he needed was a rescue, but who in all Aarenis knew or cared about him? His gnome servant, maybe, but Dattur was trussed up as tightly as Arvid himself, and gagged as well. You could ask for help. Arvid had heard that voice before, and it was not a voice he wanted to hear. Nor the chuckle that followed. He was no...

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Moon
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9780345524188
• ISBN: 978-0-345-52418-8
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Paladin's Legacy; Legend of Paksenarrion; Legend of Paksenarrion; Paladin's Legacy
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy