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Informationen zum Autor Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, and headed off to university in Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself, he subsequently ended up in law. Adrian has since worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds and now writes full-time. He also lives in Leeds, with his wife and son. Adrian is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor. He has also trained in stage-fighting and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind – possibly excepting his son. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel – and Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. This was in the award’s 30th anniversary year. Klappentext The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in stalemate! and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled! seeking meaning in a city that no longer seems like home. The Empress Seda is regaining control over cities which refused to bow to her! but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies. Only her consort! Thalric! knows the truth! and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and loyalties under threat. The ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them! with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones... The fifth novel in the thrilling Shadows of the Apt series - following on from Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis and Salute the Dark. Zusammenfassung The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate! and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend! haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease! seeking for meaning in a city that no longer seems like home. The Empress Seda is regaining control over those imperial cities who refused to bow the knee to her! but she draws her power from something more sinister than mere armies and war machines. Only her consort! the former spymaster Thalric! knows the truth! and now the assassins are coming and he finds his life and his loyalties under threat yet again. Out past the desert of the Nem the ancient city of Khanaphes awaits them both! with a terrible secret entombed beneath its stones... ...
