| Edition |
1st trade ed. |
| Description |
593 pages : maps ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
The powder mage trilogy ; book 1 |
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McClellan, Brian, 1986-
Powder mage trilogy ; book 1.
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| Note |
Includes Brian McClellan interview questions, previously unpublished prologue from Promise of Blood, and excerpts from The Crimson Campaign by Brian McClellan and Red Country by Joe Abercrombie. |
| Summary |
"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 greedy scrambling 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. 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.."-- Provided by publisher. |
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""PROMISE OF BLOOD puts the epic back in fantasy! A novel that opens in the aftermath of a bloody coup, it's a thrilling look at politics, kingdoms, and the retribution that falls swiftly on broken promises." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
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Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction.
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Betrayal -- Fiction.
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Imaginary places -- Fiction.
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Fantasy fiction, American.
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Adventure stories, American.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Adventure stories, American. (OCoLC)fst00797469
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Betrayal. (OCoLC)fst00830942
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Fantasy fiction. (OCoLC)fst00920710
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Fantasy fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst00920725
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Imaginary places. (OCoLC)fst00967571
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Imaginary wars and battles. (OCoLC)fst00967580
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Kings and rulers. (OCoLC)fst00987694
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| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
9780316219044 (paperback) |
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0316219045 (paperback) |
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