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the Sunday Times bestselling epic fantasy series of gunpowder, arcane powers and dark prophecy (Book Three of The Great Silence)

By Richard Swan

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The Sunday Times bestselling Great Silence series continues WHERE MAGICK FAILS, INDUSTRY PREVAILS The battle for the Eye of the Sea has been won, but a war that started in Heaven has spread to all four corners of the known world. Renata Rainer, once a lowly... Read More

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Blood Dynasty is the final novel in the Great Silence trilogy from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan - a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread

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The Sunday Times bestselling Great Silence series continues

WHERE MAGICK FAILS, INDUSTRY PREVAILS

The battle for the Eye of the Sea has been won, but a war that started in Heaven has spread to all four corners of the known world.

Renata Rainer, once a lowly ambassadorial aide, now leads the Sovan effort to forge the nations of the globe into an alliance that can stand against Hell's legions. While she seeks aid from the Sky Nation of Tenger, Captain Laine hopes to harness the arcane expertise of the Tsukumese Shōgunate. Both will find societies as treacherous and divided as their own.

Lyzander, meanwhile, must brave the depths of the afterlife in search of a weapon that can defeat a Prince of Hell. The price of failure will be far more than his immortal soul.

As Count von Oldenburg unleashes a reign of chaos in Sova, and demonic hordes swarm across entire continents, Renata's fragile alliance of human and hybrid nations faces a stark choice:

Stand and fight together, or watch the world fall.

Praise for the series

'Dazzling and immersive epic fantasy' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'This is one wild, intricate ride: grim, grotesque, vivid, thrilling' Kirkus (starred review)

'An absolute treat . . . crammed with imagination, horror, epic scale, and characters I simply could not put down' Grimdark Magazine

'A truly remarkable page-turning, flintlock fantasy horror' Fantasy Hive

The Great Silence
Grave Empire
Steel Gods
Blood Dynasty

The Empire of the Wolf
The Justice of Kings
The Tyranny of Faith
The Trials of Empire

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780356523941

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 February 2027

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orbit

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 528

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About the Author

Richard Swan is a critically acclaimed British genre writer. He is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Empire of the Wolf and Great Silence trilogies, as well as fiction for Black Library and Grimdark Magazine. His work has been translated into ten languages.

Richard is a qualified lawyer, and before writing full-time spent ten years litigating multi-million-pound commercial disputes in London. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three young sons.

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