Promise of Blood: Book 1 in the Powder Mage trilogy

McClellan, Brian:

ISBN 10: 0356502015 / ISBN 13: 9780356502014

Published by Orbit, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Promise of Blood: Book 1 in the Powder Mage trilogy
• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0356502015
• ISBN 13: 9780356502014
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 700 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

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.
It's up to a few...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...

About the Author

Brian McClellan is an avid reader of fantasy and graduate of Orson Scott Card's Literary Bookcamp. When he is not writing, he loves baking, making jam from fruit grown in northeast OH and playing video games. He currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife.