The Resource Promise of blood, Brian McClellan
Promise of blood, Brian McClellan
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- Summary
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- "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.."--
- ""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 the publisher"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 593 pages
- Note
- Includes Meet the author, previously unpublished prologue from Promise of blood and excerpt of Crimson campaign
- Isbn
- 9780316219044
- Label
- Promise of blood
- Title
- Promise of blood
- Statement of responsibility
- Brian McClellan
- Subject
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- trueResistance to government
- trueRebels
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- trueExtortion
- trueFantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- Imaginary places -- Fiction
- trueImaginary wars and battles
- Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
- trueInsurgency
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction
- trueMilitary fantasy
- truePolitical corruption
- truePolice
- trueWizards
- trueRulers
- trueRoyal houses
- Language
- eng
- 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.."--
- ""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 the publisher"--
- Summary
- Successfully staging a coup to expose corruption and bring relief to the poor, Field Marshal Tamas inadvertently provokes a war with the Nine Nations and is betrayed by greedy former allies, a situation that forces him to rely on his estranged son and a retired police inspector who is being blackmailed
- Assigning source
-
- Provided by publisher
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10171823
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1986-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McClellan, Brian
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3613.C35785
- LC item number
- P76 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- The powder mage trilogy
- Series volume
- 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kings and rulers
- Imaginary wars and battles
- Betrayal
- Imaginary places
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Promise of blood, Brian McClellan
- Note
- Includes Meet the author, previously unpublished prologue from Promise of blood and excerpt of Crimson campaign
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20376193
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 593 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316219044
- Isbn Type
- (trade paperback)
- Lccn
- 2012032171
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- Stock number
- BRO-copy20130515-153
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn806015321
- .b26294291
- (OCoLC)806015321
- Label
- Promise of blood, Brian McClellan
- Note
- Includes Meet the author, previously unpublished prologue from Promise of blood and excerpt of Crimson campaign
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20376193
- Dimensions
- 21 cm.
- Extent
- 593 pages
- Isbn
- 9780316219044
- Isbn Type
- (trade paperback)
- Lccn
- 2012032171
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- Stock number
- BRO-copy20130515-153
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn806015321
- .b26294291
- (OCoLC)806015321
Subject
- trueResistance to government
- trueRebels
- Betrayal -- Fiction
- trueExtortion
- trueFantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- Fantasy fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- Imaginary places -- Fiction
- trueImaginary wars and battles
- Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction
- trueInsurgency
- Kings and rulers -- Fiction
- trueMilitary fantasy
- truePolitical corruption
- truePolice
- trueWizards
- trueRulers
- trueRoyal houses
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