introducing
If you
enjoyed
THE
OVERSIGHT
look out
for
PROMISE OF BLOOD
Book One of the Powder
Mage Trilogy
by
Brian McClellan
It’s a bloody business overthrowing a
king…
Field Marshal Tamas’s 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.
It’s up to a few…
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 are
involved…
Now, as attacks batter them
from within and without, the credulous are whispering about omens
of death and destruction. Just old peasant legends about the gods
waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort
of thing. But they should…