The Price of Valor - Shadow Campaigns

Zusatztext Praise for The Shadow Campaigns   “Wexler has produced something unusual in the fantasy line! with a setting reminiscent of the early Victorian period! out on the bleeding edge of Empire! a world of dust and bayonets and muskets...and magic...I read it at a gulp and look forward to more.”—S.M. Stirling! New York Times bestselling author of the Novels of the Change   “Highly entertaining…mixes elements of Bernard Cornwell-esque military adventure with an original take on magic and keen eye for action! dialogue and character.”—Anthony Ryan! New York Times Bestselling Author of The Waking Fire   “Marvellously written! ingeniously conceived! and great fun.”—Simon R. Green! New York Times Bestselling Author of Dr. DOA   "Wexler's storytelling and characterization are top-notch! but he's really in command when the battles arrive...Gritty! brutal! and yet wonderfully intimate! The Thousand Names is exceptional military fantasy."—Jason M. Hough! New York Times bestselling author of Zero World Informationen zum Autor Django Wexler Klappentext In the third Shadow Campaigns novel, Django Wexler continues his "epic fantasy of military might and magical conflict," (Library Journal) following The Shadow Throne and The Thousand Names. After the king's death, war has come to Vordan. The Deputies-General, led by a traitor-seeking zealot, has taken control. Queen Raesinia Orboan is nearly powerless as the government tightens its grip and assassins threaten her life. Unwilling to see the country come under another tyranny, she sets out to turn the tide of history. As the Sworn Church brings the powers of the continent to war against Vordan, General Janus bet Vhalnich offers a path to victory. Winter Ihernglass, newly promoted to command a regiment, has reunited with her lover and her friends only to face the prospect of leading them into bloody battle. And the enemy is not just armed with muskets and cannon. Dark priests of an ancient order, wielding forbidden magic, have infiltrated Vordan to stop Janus by whatever means necessary... PROLOGUE IGNAHTA SEMPRIA Such pretty country, to be soaked in blood. South of the city of Desland, the valley of the river Velt flattened out into a rolling carpet of fields, gridded by neat hedgerows and punctuated by tiny orderly hamlets, each with its tall-spired church tipped by a golden double circle. The river itself traced out a series of lazy curves, as though exhausted by its frantic descent from the highlands, and it flashed like molten silver in the warm autumn sun. Here and there, lone hills rose from the endless flat farmland like islands jutting out of the sea, crowned with gnarled, ancient trees, the last remaining strongholds of the great forests that had covered this land before the arrival of men. Atop one of those hills, at the edge of one of those primeval woods, a man sat cross-legged on a boulder and stared down at the plain below. He was a young man, barely out of boyhood, with nut-brown hair and a wispy mustache. Dressed in leathers and homespun, he could have been mistaken for a native, the son of a peasant farmer come to trap or gather wood in the old forest. In fact, he was a very long way from home, and he had no interest in firewood or game. His name was Wren. In his saddlebags, carefully folded and secured inside a lockbox, he carried a velvet mask sewn with a layer of glittering, clicking obsidian. It marked him as a servant of an order out of legend, one that was supposedly a hundred years dead: the Priests of the Black, fell agents of the Elysian Church, its spies and inquisitors. Even within the hidden fraternity who carried out the will of the Black Priests, Wren was of a special breed. He had spoken the true name of a demon, and would play host to the creature until the en...

Product details

• Authors: Django Wexler
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780451418098
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41809-8
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 170 mm x 35 mm
• Series: The Shadow Campaigns; The Shadow Campaigns
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy