Darien / C.F. Iggulden.
Material type:
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780718186487
- 0718186486
- 9780718186463
- 071818646X
- 823.92 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection (New) | Fiction Collection (New) | IGGU | Available | T00811639 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Twelve Families. One Throne. An epic new fantasy series of spellbinding imagination. Welcome to the Empire of Salt.
A hunter tasked with murdering a king . . .
An old man compelled to protect him . . .
A young woman's whose true potential has yet to be revealed . . .
As these three strangers make their way towards the very heart of Darien, a creature from the old world appears whose abilities may be the undoing of them all.
The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city - Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who cannot speak, Daw Threefold, a chancer and gambler, Vic Deeds, who feels no guilt - and Nancy, a girl whose talent might be the undoing of them all. As the sun sets, their arrival inside the walls will spark a series of explosive events. Before the sun returns, six destinies will have been made - and lost - in Darien. Welcome to the Empire of Salt, where sword and sorcery are at their finest ...