P is for Promise
Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan is the perfect book for today. P for Promise, Politics, Powder and Power.
Title: Promise of Blood (Powder Mage #1)
Author: Brian McClellan
Read by: Christian Rodska
Category: Fantasy
Audio published: April 6, 2013 by Hachette Audio
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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The Age of Kings is dead...and I have killed it.
It's a bloody business overthrowing a king....
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 the greedy to scramble 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.
But when gods...