While he sat in a town so safe it was dull, growing old.ĭon't be a fool, he told himself. Jealous of a boy a third of his age, commanding a pretty company of lances. The Captain of Albinkirk forced himself to stop staring out his narrow, glazed window and do some work. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intellectual property. If you’re a fan of Mark Lawrence, John Gwynne, or Brian McClellan you won’t want to miss out on this intricate, epic debut fantasy. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can’t deal with. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it’s just another job. The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he’s determined to turn a profit. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it.
But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern’s jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. (Jan.Miles Cameron weaves an epic tale of magic and mercenaries, war and depravity, politics and intrigue in this action-packed debut fantasy The Red Knight. Cameron, a pseudonymous author of historical fiction, packs this thick volume with enough magic, violence, and intrigue for three books, flavoring the story with period detail and earthy dialogue. The abbess of Lissen Carak reluctantly hires the Red Knight and his group of mercenaries to defend the abbey, but she isn’t sure which is worse: the Wild forces, or the mercenaries’ threats to her nuns’ virtue. Normally the Wild are powerful, semi-intelligent animals and magical beings without direction or discipline, but a rogue sorcerer named Thorn is summoning the Wild to fight the forces of church and law and sees taking the fortress nunnery Lissen Carak as the first step in overrunning the kingdom.
A medieval Europe threatened by the chaos and magic of Wild creatures turns to two dubious civilizing forces: the church and bands of cutthroat knights for hire. Fans of hefty adventure epics will enjoy this dense, intricately plotted historical fantasy debut, which launches the Traitor Son Cycle.
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