Promise of Blood
of Brian McClellan (Goodreads Author)
Series: Powder Mage #1
Description
The Age of Kings is dead . . . and I have killed it. It's a bloody business overthrowing a king...Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and the greedy to scramble for money and power by Tamas's supposed allies: the Church, workers unions, and mercenary forces.Stretched to his limit, Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be his estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty is being tested by blackmail.But when gods are involved...Now, as attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should...In a rich, distinctive world that mixes magic with technology, who could stand against mages that control gunpowder and bullets?
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 545 pages
- Publisher Orbit
- Publication Date April 16th 2013
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780316219037
- Edition Not informed
- Category Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Scenario ['Adopest, Adro']
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