Chris Bunch's The Empire Stone is an enjoyable fantasy romp with touches of occasional real darkness. Gambler and part-time thief Peirol is commissioned by an ill-tempered magician with an attractive daughter to find the Stone, an amulet of enormous power, and heads off into the unknown where his ready wit, and lack of most scruples, serve him well. This is the sort of plot which the reader knows is going to be a matter of one reasonably entertaining episode after another, and Bunch does not disappoint--strange cities, monsters, fights between slave-galleys, ill-judged sexual intrigues, the outwitting of local tyrants and the working of sinister magics all crop up sooner or later, and Peirol escapes by the narrowest of squeaks each time. Where this differs from the similar fantasies that were being written with almost equal slickness in the thirties is that Peirol's adventures are as liable to be sexual as not--and the women in his life are as self-willed as the men without being rendered automatically villainous. This is unsubtle entertainment with a reasonable amount of heart and brain. (Roz Kaveney, AMAZON.CO.UK REVIEW)
Rich and convincing ... will leave you eagerly awaiting the next instalment (SFX)
According to legend, the Empire Stone was larger than a fist and could light a man's path in the dark of the moon. Fashioned by gods - or maybe demons - it could give power and riches to anyone who held it. But it was lost when the city of Thyone was destroyed, and now its secrets lay buried in the past.
The Year of the Eagle has begun badly for Peirol of the Moorlands. He'd fallen in with Koosh Begee and his gang of tricksters. He'd fallen to gambling. And he'd lost. Not before it's too late, Peirol realises that he's been trapped. Heavily in debt, Begee forces Peirol to recover a long-lost gem from a ruined temple. And so begins an incredible adventure, full of danger, mystery and magic, which will take Peirol across oceans and kingdoms in search of his destiny.
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