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Derrocar a un rey es un trabajo sangriento. El Mariscal de Campo Tamas ha liderado el golpe de estado en Adro. La aristocracia decadente y corrupta ha terminado en la guillotina y el pueblo hambriento ahora tiene comida. Pero además ha provocado la guerra en las Nueve Naciones, ataques...

Adopest has fallen.... Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing and his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away. With the Kez still bearing down upon them and without clear leadership, the Adran army has turned against itself. Inspector Adamat is drawn into the very heart of this new mutiny with promises of finding his kidnapped son.

Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sends corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brings bread to the starving. But it also provokes war in the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics and greedy scrambling for money and power by Tamas' supposed allies: the Church, workers' unions, and mercenary forces. Stretched to his limit, Tamas relies heavily on his few remaining powder mages, including the embittered Taniel, a brilliant marksman who also happens to be Tamas' estranged son, and Adamat, a retired police inspector whose loyalty will be tested to its limit.

Enter a war-torn world where gunpowder and magic collide. The nation of Fatrasta is a haven for criminals, rebels, adventurers and sorcerers seeking relics of the past. As insurrection grows, only the iron will of the Lady Chancellor holds the capital city of Landfall together. Yet an ancient power as old as time is rising, and the fate of this young nation now rests in the hands of a spy, a disgraced war hero and a mercenary general with a past as turbulent as Landfall's present.

In this thrilling first book of the Powder Mage Trilogy, civil unrest has crippled the citizens of Adro in the aftermath of the revolution that obliterated the monarchy—now, Field Marshal Tamas and his lieutenants must confront the true cost of freedom. It's a bloody business overthrowing a...

As their final battle approaches, a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in the final book of Brian McClellan's epic fantasy trilogy. The Dynize have unlocked the Landfall Godstone, and Michel Bravis is tasked with returning to...

As war rages, both sides are in a race to find the one thing that could turn the tides to their favor -- a stone with the power to turn humans into gods -- in the second book of Brian McClellan's epic fantasy tale of magic and gunpowder. The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied...

A new epic fantasy trilogy about a young nation at odds with the ancient forces that have begun to stir as fortune seekers and sorcerers flock to the frontier. Set in of Brian McClellan's Powder Mage trilogy. A world on the cusp of a new age. . . The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place...

As a staggering defeat on the border of Adro and Kez leaves Tamas and his powder mages in grave danger and cut off from all aid—a deadly political game threaten his allies at home. When invasion looms ... Tamas's invasion of Kez ends in disaster when a Kez counter-offensive leaves him cut off...

Alek Fitz is a reaper, a collection agent who works for the supernatural elements of the world, tracking down debtors and solving problems for clients as diverse as the Lords of Hell, vampires, Haitian loa, and goblins. He’s even worked for the Tooth Fairy on occasion. Based out of Cleveland, Ohio, Alek is the best in the game. As a literal slave to his job, he doesn’t have a choice.

Alek Fitz is the lead reaper for Valkyrie Collections, an agency that gathers debts for the paranormal elements of the world. Bound into modern-day slavery by a contract he cannot break and sold by parents he never knew, Alek works alongside demons, spirits, witches, and even Death himself to collect on deals made with humanity. When Alek is forced to take a job from a local vampire hunting down a runaway thrall, he is immediately thrust into a world of blackmail and backstabbing, where the rules are nothing more than an inconvenience to ancient, supernatural predators.

Ich würde für mein Land sterben... aber lieber würde ich für es töten. Feldmarschall Tamas kehrt in sein geliebtes Land zurück, nur um feststellen zu müssen, dass zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte die Hauptstadt von Adro in den Händen feindlicher Invasoren ist. Sein Sohn wird vermisst, seine Verbündeten sind von seinen Gegnern nicht zu unterscheiden und Verstärkung ist mehrere Wochen entfernt. Während ihnen die Kez immer noch zu Leibe rücken und ohne klare Führung, hat sich die adronische Armee gegen sich selbst gewandt.

Revolutionen, Pulverdampf und Magie Feldmarschall Tamas' Invasion endete in einer Katastrophe. Gestrandet hinter feindlichen Linien und gnadenlos gejagt, muss Tamas seine verbliebenen Männer auf einem waghalsigen Rückzug durch das nördliche Kez führen. In Adro will Inspektor Adamat nur seine Frau retten. Um das zu erreichen, muss er den rätselhaften Lord Vetus aufspüren - doch die Wahrheit, die er erfährt, ist düsterer als alles, was er sich hat vorstellen können. Der Gott Kresimir will den Kopf von Tamas' Sohn Taniel - jenes Mannes, der ihm ins Auge schoss.

Teado is a Changer, a shape-shifting military asset trained to win wars. His platoon has been stationed in the Bavares high plains for years, stranded. As they ration supplies and scan the airwaves for news, any news, their numbers dwindle. He's not sure how much time they have left. Desperate and starving, armed with aging, faulty equipment, the team jumps at the chance for a risky resupply mission, even if it means not all of them might come back. What they discover could change the course of the war.

In the explosive conclusion to the Powder Mage trilogy, Tamas, Taniel, and Adamat have been betrayed and Adro now lies in the hands of a foreign invader—but it remains the duty of the powder mages to defend their homeland unto death. The capital has fallen ... Field Marshal Tamas returns to...

Captain Vlora is a powder mage in the Adran army. Once the favored, adopted daughter of the field marshal, she is now a pariah amongst those she called her family. Her superior officers would like nothing more than to send her to a far off posting and forget about her, but no one is exempt when...

One of the cruelest jokes the world played on itself was turning a monster into a civilized man. That’s how Ben Styke sees it, anyway. Fifteen years have passed since the Dynize War and people no longer remember Styke as a convict or a soldier or a killer. He’s just another businessman. Hurting. Tired. Old. Playing a role that does not suit him. Styke’s world is upended on the day he refuses to sell horses to the wrong man. He is soon targeted by dangerous people with deep pockets, to whom one soft old rancher means nothing.

Twelve-year-old Montego al'Bou is an orphan, a provincial peasant boy left alone by the recent death of his grandmother. Possessing nothing more than his grandmother's cudgel, he strikes out to the capital where the influential Grappo have offered to bring him up in the luxury of an Ossan guild-family. He finds his welcome frosty, his new home full of confusing responsibilities.

Im Abschluss von Brian McClellans epischer Fantasy-Trilogie über Magie und Schießpulver müssen ein Söldner, ein Spion und ein General Verbündete finden, um das Blatt des Krieges zu wenden. Die Dynize haben den Landfall-Gottesstein entschlüsselt, und Michel Bravis soll nach Greenfire Depths zurückkehren, um alles zu tun, was er kann, um sie daran zu hindern, die Macht des Steins zu nutzen. Ben Stykes Invasion von Dynize wird zu einem Reinfall, als ein Sturm seine Flotte zerstreut.

Im zweiten Hörbuch von Brian McClellans epischer Fantasy-Geschichte über Magie und Schießpulver liefern sich beide Seiten ein Rennen, um das eine Ding zu finden, das das Blatt zu ihren Gunsten wenden könnte - einen Stein, der die Macht hat, Menschen in Götter zu verwandeln. Das Land befindet sich in Aufruhr. Die Hauptstadt ist besetzt, und eine halbe Million Flüchtlinge, begleitet von Lady Flints Soldaten, sind unterwegs, um an der Grenze Schutz zu suchen.