Blades Against the Dark - Softcover

McMaster, Juliet Fazan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1525508121 ISBN 13: 9781525508127

Publisher: FriesenPress, 2017

Synopsis

Lyria is a peaceful volcanic island nation off the coast of East Africa. Peaceful, that is, until a power-hungry general stages a military coup and takes over, quelling all opposition. Robyn's father, the Fencing Master, is wounded and imprisoned. Bruce's father is also disempowered, his younger son taken as hostage. Robyn is an expert knife-thrower, Bruce is a champion fencer who wields a sword. Their friend Dirk is a marksman with a pistol, another friend an archer.

Together they form a resistance movement of Young Outlaws. And working from their hideout in a dormant crater, they recruit more young people with combat skills. They plan to liberate their parents and the other political prisoners.

But a bunch of kids against a modern army? The odds against them are huge. The Young Outlaws must find a way to harness the enemy's power to use against him.

About this title

About the Author

Juliet Fazan McMaster grew up in a British family in Kenya, and this book grows out of her childhood life and imaginings in that mountainous tropical landscape, as well as from her experience as a competitive fencer and her on-going engagement with young people. She lives and writes in Edmonton in Canada, and she continues to gather her inspiration from climbing the Rocky Mountains and scaling Hawaii's volcanoes. She is also an illustrator, the author of books about Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and others, and the editor of books by and for young writers.

Edition details

• Publisher: FriesenPress
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1525508121
• ISBN 13: 9781525508127
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324