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October 2014
On Sale: October 14, 2014
ISBN: 1451679319
EAN: 9781451679311
Kindle: B00IWTWST2
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Fantasy
A land of thick jungle and mist-swirled mountains. An enemy moving unseen
beneath the lush canopy. The growing threat of
thaumics—a magic wielded by few that threatens to destabilize all. The youth of
a kingdom sent to fight in a faraway hell
while back home, discord and disillusionment reign… Fantasy author Chris Evans masterfully pushes the boundaries of the genre in
his brilliant, groundbreaking new epic, a unique
and penetrating vision channeling the cultural upheaval, racial animus, and
wholesale destruction of the Vietnam War. Here,
in the distant nation of Luitox, which is wracked by rebellion, thaumic users
copilot mammoth armored dragons alongside
fliers who do not trust their strange methods. Warriors trained in crossbow,
stealth, and catapult are plunged into sudden
chaotic battles with the mysterious Forest Collective, an elusive enemy with a
powerful magic of its own. And the Kingdom’s
most downtrodden citizens, only recently granted equality, fight for the dignity
they were supposed to have won at home
while questioning who the real enemy is. OF BONE AND THUNDER is the story of Thaum Jawn Rathim, whose idealized
view of the war clashes with its harsh realities and
his realization that victory may cost him everything…of conscripted soldier
Carny, awash in a hallucinogenic haze of fear and
anger…of Breeze, the red-haired graduate from the Royal Academy of
Thaumology, certain she can transform the very nature
of warfare—if only she can win the trust of the man holding her fate in his
hands…and of Ugen Listowk, a veteran
crossbowman who finds solace in the darkest shadows of the jungle and whose
greatest fear is failing the men he leads into
battle. Plunging deep into the heart of a moral and mortal darkness, these reluctant
soldiers struggle for survival and for meaning
amid a blazing drama of blood and magic. They will duel a ghostly enemy, fight
to understand their roles in a sprawling
maelstrom, and ultimately wage the war their way—not for glory or the
Kingdom, but for one another.
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