The Mark of Ran - Tapa blanda

Acerca del autor

Paul Kearney was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He studied English at Oxford University and ived for several years in both Denmark and the United States. He now lives by the sea in County Down with his wife and two dogs.

De la contraportada

The world is dying, seemingly forsaken by its Creator. Mankind schemes, plots and wages wars across it, forgetting that another kind once dwelled here. To some these were Angels, exiled for a long-forgotten crime; to others they were demons...

And in the veins of Rol Cortishane runs the blood of this Elder race. Driven from his home, Rol finds sanctuary under the malign wing of Michael Psellos who bequeaths him a sword with a blood-lust of its own. After years spent mastering the art of murder from one he loves without hope, the beautiful but damaged Rowen, he defies Psellos and returns to the high seas. Gathering a band of like-minded outcasts around him, Rol goes in search of the Hidden City where the desperate and the dispossessed fight for survival against those who would enslave them.

New and exciting. There are echoes of the best in other fantasists and yet it s all Kearney s own delicious style SF Site

Think Master and Commander with added magic Kearney writes well, his prose roars along like a riptide and he delivers plot broadsides with panache Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Guardian

A triumphant return for one of the very best British writers of hard-edged, visceral, gritty, fantasy fiction consistently and typically excellent you are in for a treat alienonline