The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Chathrand Voyages, #1)
The Chathrand - The Great Ship, The Wind-Palace, His Supremacy's First Fancy - is the last of her kind - built 600 years ago she dwarves all the ships around her. The secrets of her construction are long lost. She was the pride of the Empire. The natural choice for the great diplomatic voyage to...
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The Chathrand - The Great Ship, The Wind-Palace, His Supremacy's First Fancy - is the last of her kind - built 600 years ago she dwarves all the ships around her. The secrets of her construction are long lost. She was the pride of the Empire. The natural choice for the great diplomatic voyage to seal the peace with the last of the Emperor's last enemies. 700 souls boarded her. Her sadistic Captain Nilus Rose, the Emperor's Ambassador and Thasha, the daughter he plans to marry off to seal the treaty, a spy master and six assassins, one hunderd imperial marines, Pazel the tarboy gifted and cursed by his mother's spell and a small band of Ixchel. The Ixchel sneaked aboard and now hide below decks amongst the rats. Intent on their own mission. But there is treachery afoot. Behind the plans for peace lies the shadow of war and the fear that a dead king might live again. And now the Chathrand, having survived countless battles and centuries of typhoons has gone missing. This is her story.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780575081789
Publish date: May 14th 2009
Publisher: Gollancz
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Series: The Chathrand Voyage (#1)
Robert V.S. Redick hat einen Master in Tropenschutz. Während seines Studiums arbeitete er in Argentinien, an der Patagonischen Küste. Elf Tage verbachte er auf Valdés, einer kleinen Halbinsel mit atemberaubender Flora und Fauna. Eines Morgens ging er allein spazieren. Es war neblig. Er sah hinaus au...
The Good:Love how this book started -- right away, the reader is informed through a "special notice" that the great ship has vanished at sea, along with the 800 souls she was carrying. (Souls...the choice of that word in the report had a chilling effect on me). Immediately, you're drawn into this my...
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Review's up at my blog:http://abitterdraft.blogspot.com/2013/05/review-red-wolf-conspiracy-by-robert-vs.html
I first noticed The Red Wolf Conspiracy on Top 25 Best Fantasy Books and immediately added it to my tbr. Sadly, it stayed there forgotten until I spotted review copy on Netgalley and remembered all the praise about it. So, with renewed interested, I sailed into an epic adventure. To be honest, the...
There’s nothing new in The Red Wolf Conspiracy: you’ve seen characters like this before, you’ve seen a plot like this before, and you’ve definitely read pirate books like this before. But what you haven’t read, and what you rarely encounter, are other worlds that are created as masterfully, characte...
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