The Second Empire. Book Four The Monarchies Of God.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Victor Gollancz
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 294 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. Winter Lies Cold And Dark Upon The World; It Seems That Spring Will Never Come. Once Dismissed As The Ravings Of A Crazed Hermit, The Prophecies Of Honorious Seem At Last To Be Coming True.

Publishers Description: Paul Kearney's high fantasy series The Monarchies of God reaches its fourth volume with The Second Empire. These tales of war, discovery and religious turmoil in a world that is not quite our own late Middle Ages or early Renaissance, but has strong resemblance to both, have been characterised by strong characters and biting emotional dilemmas. Here a general is forced to take a throne by marriage, uncertain whether his captured wife is living or dead; a captain sails for home, aware that he is bringing back secrets which might be best left on another continent; a magician parleys with ultimate evil knowing what the cost might be and a Pope tries to persuade men of good will that, for once, all religions really are the same. This is powerful stuff, intelligently written and with a real sense of the dark corridors and windy battlements of the palaces in which so much of it is set. Kearney does not only write good battles--he remembers the causes that battles are fought for. --Roz Kaveney

ISBN: 0575065745