Description
| Product ID: | 9781529050301 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Shadows of the Apt |
| Title: | Blood of the Mantis |
| Authors: | Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Page Count: | 448 |
| Subjects: | Fantasy, Fantasy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time, brings you an epic fantasy series of war and empire. In this third volume, Stenwold must rally his allies for battle. <p><b><i>Blood of the Mantis </i>is the third novel in Adrian Tchaikovsky's richly imagined Shadows of the Apt series, following</b><b> <i>Dragonfly Falling.</i> </b><b>Stenwold must rally his allies for battle against the </b><b>Empire, even as it seeks a dangerous </b><b>artifact</b><b> of enormous power.</b><br><b><br>A dread ritual casts a deadly shadow . . .</b><br><br>Achaeos the seer has finally tracked down the stolen Shadow Box. But he has only days before this magical artefact will be lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the Empire's dread forces are mustering for their next great offensive. Stenwold and his followers have only a short time to gather allies, before the enemy's soldiers march again – to conquer everything in their path. If Stenwold cannot hold them back, the hated black and gold flag will fly over every city in the Lowlands before the year's end.<br><br>Yet a more insidious threat awaits. Should the Shadow Box fall into the hands of the power-mad Emperor, nothing will save the world from his relentless ambition.<br><br><b><i>Blood of the Mantis</i> is followed by </b><b><i>Salute the Dark, </i></b><b>the fourth book in the Shadows of the Apt series.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Tor |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-03-18 |
