Grave Empire (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the blood-soaked conclusion to the Empire of the Wolf trilogy, Grave Empire brings Richard Swan's richly imagined world of law, honour, and relentless conflict to a thunderous finale. The story follows Sir Konrad Vonvalt, a Justice of the Holy Sovan Empire — a man who wields the Emperor's authority like a blade — as the empire he has sworn to protect crumbles from within, beset by treachery, war, and forces that no legal writ can contain. Narrated through the sharp, retrospective voice of his clerk Helena Vass, the novel chronicles a desperate struggle against the unravelling of civilization itself, where loyalty is tested and the cost of justice is measured in lives. Swan's prose is precise and propulsive, combining the gritty realism of grimdark fantasy with the procedural tension of a legal thriller, a combination that sets this series apart in the modern fantasy landscape. The Empire of the Wolf sequence has drawn widespread acclaim for its moral complexity, its vividly rendered late-medieval world, and its unflinching portrayal of power and its discontents. Grave Empire distils all of these qualities into a final reckoning — will the empire fall, or will one man's unyielding sense of duty be enough to hold back the dark?
Author: Richard Swan
Format: Hardback
Published: 2024, Orbit
Genre: Fantasy
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the blood-soaked conclusion to the Empire of the Wolf trilogy, Grave Empire brings Richard Swan's richly imagined world of law, honour, and relentless conflict to a thunderous finale. The story follows Sir Konrad Vonvalt, a Justice of the Holy Sovan Empire — a man who wields the Emperor's authority like a blade — as the empire he has sworn to protect crumbles from within, beset by treachery, war, and forces that no legal writ can contain. Narrated through the sharp, retrospective voice of his clerk Helena Vass, the novel chronicles a desperate struggle against the unravelling of civilization itself, where loyalty is tested and the cost of justice is measured in lives. Swan's prose is precise and propulsive, combining the gritty realism of grimdark fantasy with the procedural tension of a legal thriller, a combination that sets this series apart in the modern fantasy landscape. The Empire of the Wolf sequence has drawn widespread acclaim for its moral complexity, its vividly rendered late-medieval world, and its unflinching portrayal of power and its discontents. Grave Empire distils all of these qualities into a final reckoning — will the empire fall, or will one man's unyielding sense of duty be enough to hold back the dark?