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Also by Christopher Ruocchio:

Worlds Long Lost, December 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Ashes of Man, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Kingdoms of Death, April 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Cosmic Corsairs, October 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Demon in White, July 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Demon in White, July 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Howling Dark, July 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Howling Dark, July 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Empire of Silence, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book

EMPIRE OF SILENCE
By: Christopher Ruocchio

DAW
July 2018
On Sale: July 3, 2018
Featuring: Hadrian Marlowe
784 pages
ISBN: 0756413001
EAN: 9780756413002
Kindle: B07693PKH7
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction Space Opera

It was not his war.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives—even the Emperor himself—against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.

Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.