Book Preview KILLING ISN’T THE HARD PART Gangbangers and other fear biters do it every day. Anger pumps you up, panic cancels consideration, you grab the gun, close your eyes, pull the trigger, Christ, an ape could do it, you don’t even need to be a man. No, the truth is, killing is the easy … Read more
Book Preview the agency had hired me to “retire” Belghazi, not to protect him. So if this didn’t go well, their next candidate for a retirement package would probably be me. But the way I saw it, saving Belghazi from the guy I now thought of as Karate would be doing Uncle Sam a favor. … Read more
Book Preview After killing a CIA officer who had hunted him halfway around the globe. John Rain goes underground, hoping to disappear, seeking the peace that has eluded him. But then Rain’s old nemesis from the Tokyo FBI finds him. forcing him into one last job: track down and eliminate a killer at large, a … Read more
Book Preview Meet John Rain. Assassin. He follows his own code — he needs no one, trusts no one — until betrayal transforms him from hunter into hunted and loner into loyal friend. Haunted by the past, Rain kills to order and leaves no trace but the death at his hand of an old man … Read more
Book Preview The Hidden City The Tamuli Book Three David Eddings War To The Death The Pandion Knight Sparhawk had bested the massed forces of the God Cyrgon upon the field of battle. But victory turned to ashes when the foul God’s minions kidnapped Sparhawk’s wife, the beautiful … Read more
Book Preview The Shining Ones The Tamuli Book Two David Eddings Prologue Excerpted from Chapter Three of the ‘Cyrga Affair: An Examination of the Recent Crisis’. Compiled by the Contemporary History Department of the University of Matherion. A compilation such as this is the … Read more
Book Preview Domes of Fire The Tamuli Book One David Eddings Danger stalked Queen Ehlana’s realm. When an ambasador from the far-off Tamul Empire begged for help, Sparhawk, Ehlana’s champion and Prince Consort, was the Emperor’s last hope. For surely the knight who had killed the evil … Read more
Book Preview Book Three The Elenium PART ONE The Basilica PART TWO The Archprelate My wife has advised me that she would like to write the dedication for this book. Since she’s responsible for much of the work, her suggestion seems only fair. You reached up and pulled the fire down from the sky. Following … Read more
Book Preview A history of the House of Sparhawk. – From the Chronicles of the Pandion Brotherhood. It was in the twenty-fifth century when the hordes of Otha of Zemoch invaded the Elene kingdoms of western Eosia and swept all before them with fire and sword in their march to the west. Otha appeared invincible … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Excerpts from The Book of Ages , Book One of THE MALLOREAN GOSPELS: Now These are the Ages of Man: In the First Age was man created, and he awoke in puzzlement and wonder as he beheld the world about him. And those that had made him considered him and selected from … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Being a Brief History of the Eastern Empire. — from Emperors of Melcena and Mallorea University of Melcene Press The origins of the Melcene Empire are forever lost to us. Some legends maintain that the precursors of the Melcenes came in rude canoes out of the vast sea lying east of the … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Being a brief history of Mallorea and the races that dwell there. -Digested from The Chronicles of Angarak University of Melcene Press Tradition places the ancestral home of the Angaraks somewhere off the south coast of present-day Dalasia. Then Torak, Dragon God of Angarak, used the power of the Stone, Cthrag Yaska, … Read more
Book Preview PROLOGUE Being an account of how Belgarion’s Son was stolen and how he learned the Abductor was that Zandramas against whom the puissant Orb of Aldur had warned. —from The Lives of Belgarion the Great (Introduction, Vol. IV) Now, as has been told, in the earliest of days the Gods created the world … Read more
Book Preview Being an Account those Events came to the Throne of Riva and how he slew the Accursed God Torak. -from the Introduction, Legends of Aloria After the seven Gods created the world, it is said that they and those races of men they had chosen dwelt together in peace and harmony. But UL, … Read more
Book Preview A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods and Kings and men – of strange lands and events – of fate and a prophecy that must be fulfilled! The quest was over. The Orb of Aldur was restored. And once again, with the crowning of … Read more
Book Preview Being an account of how Riva Iron grip became Guardian of the Orb of Aldur and of the evil wrought by Nyissa. NOW A TIME came when Cherek and his three sons went with Belgarath the Sorcerer into Mallorea. Together they sought to reclaim the Orb of Aldur, which had been stolen by … Read more
Book Preview Formatted by YuSaKu (FookDemonoidcom) Exclusively for Demonoid.com MAGICIAN’S GAMBIT who has the enduring grace to put up with Eddings men, and for Wayne, for reasons we both understand but could never be put into words. PROLOGUE Being an Account of how Gorim sought a God for his People and of how he found … Read more
Book Preview Being an Account of the Battle of the Kingdoms of the West against the most heinous Invasion and Evil of Kal Torak. -based upon The Battle of Vo Mimbre IN THE YOUTH of the world, the evil God Torak stole the Orb of Aldur and fled, seeking dominion. The Orb resisted, and its … Read more