Emissary (Percheron Trilogy) - Softcover

Fiona McIntosh

3.83

1,566 ratings by Goodreads

9780732281816: Emissary (Percheron Trilogy)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0732281814 ISBN 13: 9780732281816

Publisher: Voyager / HarperCollins, 2006

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A confrontation between the demi-god, Iridor, and the demon Maliz is not the only dire new from Percheron. The region's centuries-old rival, Galinsea, is bringing war and only a man with a dark secret and an odalisque facing execution stand between peace and destruction. The trilogy, Percheron contines with the Emissary.

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About the Author:

Born in 1960 and raised in southern England, Fiona McIntosh spent an early childhood in the gold-mining camp of Bibiani in Ghana, where her father was working. She studied in Brighton before starting a career in PR and marketing in London. She made Australia her home in 1980, continuing in a travel-marketing career with an ad agency, a tourism authority, and an international airline. Fiona married her magazine-publisher husband, Ian, and they now live in Adelaide with their teenage twin sons, Will and Jack.

From Publishers Weekly:

Though the world-building remains top-notch, this slow-moving second installment of McIntosh's epic fantasy (after Odalisque) appears mainly designed to set up more interesting action in later volumes. Ana, a virginal odalisque, is trapped in the idle harem of Boaz, the chaste, adolescent Zar of Percheron. Nearly every man who sees Ana desires and adores her, not only the Zar but also exiled warrior Lazar and the goddess-touched, shape-shifting dwarf, Pez. However, Herezah, the Zar's mother, sees Ana as a dangerous threat to her supremacy in the harem, and she concocts a plan with chief eunuch Salmeo to bring about Ana's humiliation and demise. A new setting eventually blows a fresh desert breeze through the stifling atmosphere, but the hundreds of pages spent building up to Ana's escape attempt, including a disturbing scene of sexual torture at Salmeo's hands, will have the reader sharing Ana's longing to be anywhere other than the Zar's palace. (Oct.)
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