Seven Devils

Informationen zum Autor L.R. Lam was first Californian and now Scottish. Lam is the Sunday Times bestselling and award-winning author of Dragonfall (the Dragon Scales trilogy), the Seven Devils duology (co-written with Elizabeth May), Goldilocks , the Pacifica novels, and the award-winning Micah Grey trilogy, which begins with Pantomime . They are also Programme Leader on the Creative Writing MA at Edinburgh Napier University. Elizabeth May is the author of the YA fantasy trilogy The Falconer and short fiction published in the anthology Toil & Trouble . She was born and raised in California before moving to Scotland, where she earned her PhD at the University of St Andrews. Klappentext Now in paperback, this first book in a feminist space opera duology introduces seven individuals who will free the galaxy from a ruthless empire-or die trying. When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray. Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic and hotshot pilot Cloelia, bears an old grudge against Eris, making an already difficult infiltration even more complicated. When they find the ship, they discover more than they bargained for: three fugitives with firsthand knowledge of the corrupt empire's inner workings. Together, these women possess the knowledge and capabilities to bring the empire to its knees. But the clock is ticking: the new heir to the empire plans to disrupt a peace summit with the only remaining alien empire, ensuring the empire's continued expansion. If they can find a way to stop him, they will save the galaxy. If they can't, millions may die. Story Locale: Outer space Series Overview: A former princess, a mechanic, a hacker, a courtesan, a royal bodyguard, a resistance leader, and a brainwashed soldier must unite to wrest control from a ruthless empire in this dramatic space opera duology. Leseprobe Eris got the call from her commander while she was killing a man. The guard slumped against her, dead in under thirty seconds from a blade to the throat, a stab in the carotid artery. Fast and quiet. The sharp, tangy scent of his blood wafted toward her as she hauled the guard’s still-warm body against hers and slowly lowered him to the spacecraft’s floor. Could she have prevented this death? If she were honest with herself: yes. But there was no time for guilt. She was doing her job. Her Pathos, the communication chip embedded within her cerebrum, echoed through her skull with the most irritating musical tune. Commander Sher had chosen it because he knew Eris couldn’t ignore it. Riiing riiiing this is important, > the tune sang. isten to meee and remember don’t murder people!> I’m busy, > she sent back through her Pathos. Most Pathos only had a range of a planet, half a solar system at most. Sher was outfitted with a beta design that could bounce its signal off satellites as far as it pleased as long as he knew her rough coordinates. It irritated the shit out of her. She had a spacecraft to commandeer. Scylla was larger than most of the ships she’d taken in the past. It had the capability of growing large amounts of hydroponic food, and if there was one thing the Novantae resistance was short on, it was food, followed by weapons. Eris grabbed the guard’s identity card and cut off his finger with a swipe of her blade. Almost every ship the resistance had was taken through force or subterfuge, and Eris was damn good at her job. She slid the identity card through the slot, pressed the gua...

Product details

• Authors: L R Lam, L. R. Lam, Laura Lam, Elizabeth May
• Publisher: Daw
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2021
• EAN: 9780756418281
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-1828-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 209 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Seven Devils
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy