The Red Knight
An epic historical fantasy with action, dragons and war, a must read for GAME OF THRONES fans
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4.7 • 67 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
Forget George and the Dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot and tales of Knightly exploits. This is dirty, bloody work. This is violent, visceral action. This is a mercenary knight as you've never seen one before.
Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild.
Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder.
It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.
The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery it's just another job. The abbey is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with.
Only it's not just a job. It's going to be a war ...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of hefty adventure epics will enjoy this dense, intricately plotted historical fantasy debut, which launches the Traitor Son Cycle. A medieval Europe threatened by the chaos and magic of Wild creatures turns to two dubious civilizing forces: the church and bands of cutthroat knights for hire. Normally the Wild are powerful, semi-intelligent animals and magical beings without direction or discipline, but a rogue sorcerer named Thorn is summoning the Wild to fight the forces of church and law and sees taking the fortress nunnery Lissen Carak as the first step in overrunning the kingdom. The abbess of Lissen Carak reluctantly hires the Red Knight and his group of mercenaries to defend the abbey, but she isn't sure which is worse: the Wild forces, or the mercenaries' threats to her nuns' virtue. Cameron, a pseudonymous author of historical fiction, packs this thick volume with enough magic, violence, and intrigue for three books, flavoring the story with period detail and earthy dialogue.
Customer Reviews
Great book
Starts a bit slow but this is a great book, absolutely everything that I was looking for in a fantasy epic.
A really excellent story.... But the punctuation and missing words....oh dear
I really enjoyed this read, I was gripped from the word go. I think the plot was excellent and it was very well put together and tied up neatly at the end.
All I would say is for the love of God get a decent copy text editor, as many of the words made no sense sometimes and although I get the gist it sometimes makes me have to re-read a sentence for the bit I am reading to stack up. The editing is terrible.
Having said all that I will be reading the next one as the content is really top notch. A very enjoyable read!!
One of a kind!
At first I was hesitant to read this series, so many out there claim to be “the next game of thrones!” Or “The next lord of the rings!”.
This series takes the best qualities from those two series, mashes them together with amazing writing, concepts and characters to give you the adventure of a lifetime. Trust me, you want to read this!