Book Preview BOOKS BY E. E. KNIGHT The Vampire Earth Series Way of the Wolf Choice of the Cat Tale of the Thunderbolt Valentine’s Rising Valentine’s Exile Valentine’s Resolve Fall with Honor Winter Duty March in Country Appalachian Overthrow The Age of Fire Series Dragon Champion Dragon Avenger Dragon Outcast Dragon Strike Dragon Rule The … Read more
Book Preview PART I: USEFUL TO THE ORDER THE BLACK PRINCE OF THE WHITE PALACE NIGHT RIDE TO MARYLAND THE BEER GARDEN ON THE CHEAT RIVER PURGE AT THE WHITE PALACE PART TWO: THE BLACK CURRENCY THE FIRST NOTES OF THE CRESCENDO BLEECHER’S TRY AT A RESOLUTION PART THREE: CONQUEST AND CLEANSING LONGLINER ON A … Read more
Book Preview Firsch County Wayside Number Two The Kentucky-Tennessee border February of the Fifty-sixth year of the Kurian Order: The recent violent winter, the worst in living memory for even the tough locals, has ebbed at last. Nothing that might be called spring warms the sky; rather, it is a quiet between-season pause, like the … Read more
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Book Preview Freedom is on the march as the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth takes the offensive. David Valentine has recruited an ad hoc company of former Quisling soldiers and puts them through a trial by fire with a successful raid against an enemy armory. Now, they’re ready to join forces with a … Read more
Book Preview Weathercut Manse,Iowa, November, the fifty-second year of the Kurian Order: A Hawkeye from the first quarter of the twenty-first century would hardly recognize his state in the snow-dusted fall of that year. The corn and soybeans, yes, the birches and willows claiming soggy land rimming the streams and lakes, and the majestic oaks, … Read more
Book Preview Dallas, March, the fiftieth year of the Kurian Order: Four square miles of concrete and structural steel smoke and pop and sputter as the city dies from the stranglehold of a siege. Save for the sounds of streetfighting, hard to locate thanks to reflections from the skyscrapers, this city at war seems strangely … Read more
Book Preview To those in uniform, past and present. All along that singing river A black mass of men was seen And above their shining weapons Hung their own beloved green Death to every foe and traitor! Whistle loud the marching tune And Hurrah! me boys for freedom Tis the rising of the moon The … Read more
Book Preview TALE OF THE THUNDERBOLT THE VAMPIRE EARTH 3 E.E. KNIGHT Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. I thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, … Read more
Book Preview The Great Plains Gulag, March of the forty-fifth year of the Kurian Order: Only the bones of a civilization remain, monuments to mankind’s apogee. Nature and time gnaw away the rest. Derricks still stand in this corner of oil country, giant iron insects surveying the countryside. Beneath them, the pumps rust, scattered in … Read more
Book Preview Northern Louisiana, March, the forty-third year of the Kurian Order: The green expanse once known as theKisatchieForest slowly digests the works of man. A forest in name only, it is a jungle of wet heat and dead air, a fetid overflowing of swamps, bayous, and backwaters. The canopy of interwoven cypress branches shrouded … Read more
Book Preview Praise for the Novels of THE AGE OF FIRE NOVELS BOOK FIVE OF THE AGE OF FIRE BOOK FOUR OF THE AGE OF FIRE “Entertaining. . . . Knight turns the familiar features of an epic fantasy upside down in this unique world of medieval politics and ancient magic seen through the … Read more
Book Preview Chapter 1 The Copper dragon, Tyr of Worlds Upper and Lower, Exalted Protector of the Grand Alliance, tried not to show the pain. The velvet darkness of the warm air over the Inland Ocean might have been that of summer instead of late autumn. The oceanic currents near the nighted shore swirled … Read more
Book Preview ROC Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin … Read more
Book Preview Praise for the novels of E. E. Knight Dragon Avenger BOOK TWO OF THE AGE OF FIRE “Knight breathes new life into old conventions…. Here is no warmed-over Tolkien playground, but a new world breathed to life and populated with fascinating characters we long to hear more from…. Knight, a master plotter and … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR DRAGON CHAMPION BOOK ONE OF THE AGE OF FIRE “Will be of interest to dragon fanciers looking for something solid into which to sink their teeth—or talons.”—KLIATT “[A] bloody, unsentimental fairy tale.”—Publishers Weekly “Dragon Champion is an enchanting story of a young dragon’s search for answers to help him understand what … Read more
Book Preview Roc Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin … Read more