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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345379047
ISBN number: 0345379047
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: May 31, 1995
Publishing house: Del Rey
Release Date: May 31, 1995
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Studio: Del Rey
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The Drenai stronghold had fallen. Now blood-hungry Nadir hordes spread desolation and despair across all the lands...
...even tiny Gothir, where slavers seized a young girl while the villagers looked the other way--all but the peasant boy Kiall. His unlikely rescue endeavor would lead across the savage steppes and on through the Halls of Hell. The youth would face ferocious beasts, deadly warriors, and demons of the dark; he would emerge a man--or not emerge at all.
But Kiall would not face these dangers alone. Heroes out of legend joined his quest: Chareos the Blademaster, Beltzer the Axeman, and the bowmen Finn and Maggrig. And one among their company hid a secret that could free the world of Nadir domination. That one was the Nadir Bane, the hope of the Drenai. That one was the Earl of Bronze.
Thus did a search for a stolen slave girl become a quest that would shake the very world.
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Brand new book, just like I ordered.
Excellent. Thank you.
Anthony
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One of the best books I ever read. Gemmell is quickly becoming my favorite author. This book is one of his best. This story is ment to stand on its own, but some publishing company has placed it into a series for marketing purposes. Gemmell's heros are raw and real. You will not find another sword & sorcery fantasy author that brings the "realism" quite the way Gemmell does.
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The works of David Gemmell were recommended to me by a feisty Brit. I read one and then could not collect them fast enough to satisfy me. Great work, rousing adventure, and detailed believable characters.
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Tenaka Khan is dead, poisoned by his own son, Jungir. He has also disposed of his brothers, and sent his sister into exile, because he has failed to produce an heir.
Some years later, due to a conflict with the local earl, both Chareos the Blademaster and a young villager named Kiall set out to look for a woman captured by slavers.
Chareos encounters his friends, the other heroes of Bel-Azar - the only battle that Tenaka Khan did not win. Beltzer the axeman, and the archers, Finn and Magrig come with them, as does the mystic tribesmen Ostas.
Asta Khan, Tenaka's shaman, is still alive, and has deceived Jungir, and is plotting his master's return. This is part of the reason Tenaka left the Heroes of Bel-Azar alive.
Chareos is also a descendant of both the Drenai, and the Nadir, like Tenaka, and just may be the Earl of Bronze.
First, they must survive a trip into a demon infested underworld, and an infiltration of the Nadir stronghold.
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In this particular novel, a young man's village is raided by slavers, and he sets out on the generic quest of rescuing his love, captured in the raid. He is even helped on this quest by the legendary heros of a recent war, Chereos a master swordsman, Finn and Magrig the archers, and Beltzer of the axe. But the generic quest turns out to be no simple task, and their hopeless errand turns into something more than the mere rescuing of a comely peasant girl.
David Gemmell has a way of bringing real life practicalities into his fantasy, his characters are old cynics, drunkards and selfish. Few and far between are the stereotypes of fantasy: the sage that has an answer for anything, the ubermensch or hero without a weakness or flaw. Instead you find characters you might mistake for people in the real world, with realistic motivations and character flaws that make you squirm in disgust.
Granted, Gemmel is not the best author. As a teenager I read this novel and longed to live in this fantasy world. As an adult, I read it and see that it might have been rushed, the plot not entirely fleshed out. Regardless it is a fun distraction that might end too soon for more than just a few, and I enjoyed it no less than I did ten years ago.
-Steven
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