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THE BOOKS

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drenai tales

Waylander

The Drenai king is dead - murdered by a ruthless assassin. Enemy troops swarm in to Drenai lands. Their orders are simple - kill every man, woman and child.

But there is hope. Stalked by men who act like beasts and beasts that walk like men, the warrior Waylander must journey into the shadow-haunted lands of the Nadir to find the legendary Armour of Bronze.

With this he can turn the tide.But can he be trusted?

For he is Waylander the slayer. The traitor who killed the king...

Waylander II ....In The Realm Of The Wolf

High in the wooded, peaked mountains of Skeln, the woodsman, Dakeyras, and his beautiful daughter Miriel,live a life of harmonious solitude. Unbeknown to them, a group of grim-eyed, bloodthirsty warriors stalk the mountains.Men who have never known defeat, to whom revenge and torture are meat and drink. For ten thousand in gold they are eager to kill the woodsman.

Battle-hardened warriors all, they have no fear of this task - they should have. For Miriel is a woman of fire and iron,skilled with bow and blade and taught her skills by one of the deadliest killers of all time...

...Her father, Dakeyras, better known as...WAYLANDER THE SLAYER.

WAYLANDER III

The ruined city of Kuan Hador reeks of dark mystery. Shunned by brigands and merchants alike, it is home to fearsome wild things and legends that freeze the blood--tales that speak of a time thousands of years past, when Kuan Hador was the capital of a vast empire ruled by evil sorcerers. These mages were able to meld beasts and men into unholy Joinings--foot soldiers of a ruthless demonic army. When the forces of men finally did prevail, the sorcerers and their half-human slaves escaped through a magical doorway . . . only to find themselves trapped in another world. The doorway sealed behind them, locked with an enchantment too powerful to break. Or so the legends say.But at the heart of every legend lies a glimmer of truth, and truth can kill. Especially when it comes in the form of slavering white beasts who possess an insatiable appetite for death and destruction. Millennia have passed, and the spell of imprisonment has begun to fade. The sorcerers and their foul minions will soon be free to wreak a horrible vengeance against all that lives.This time, no army waits to oppose them--only a rag-tag group of unlikely heroes: Kysumu, the rajnee swordsman; Yu Yu Liang, a humble ditch digger with dreams of glory; Taliana, a warrior woman as fierce as she is beautiful. Leading them is the mysterious Gray Man, an enigmatic figure hated and envied for his fabulous wealth. A man with a blood-drenched past, who has killed for principle and for payment. A man of destiny known throughout the lands of the Drenai as Waylander the Slayer.Now, to defeat a timeless evil, an ancient riddle must be solved . . . and Waylander, the prince of assassins, must kill a man who cannot die.

The First Chronicles Of Druss The Legend

Druss. The Legend. Saviour of Skeln Pass. Protector of Dros Delnoch.

The most famous - and dreaded of Drenai's heroes.

But before all men knew Druss he was a young husband, hewing trees instead of men - most of the time - and held in check

by his beloved Rowena.When she is stolen by slavers Druss becomes a killing machine intent on only one thing:

Rowena's return.

Druss The Legend , the man, the battle, the hero..

The Legend of Deathwalker

Under the brutal oppression of the Gothir, the nadir tribes dream of the Uniter, the Great One, who will bring the tribes together, and end their centuries of torment. But for one man it is more than a dream.

Talisman, a mysterious and enigmatic Nadir warrior, rides out to the shrine of Oshikai Demon-bane, seeking the legendary eyes of Alchazzar, twin jewels of enormous power that will light the path to the Uniter. With him rides the beautiful Zhusai, a mystic tormented by the ghost of a long dead Nadir queen.

But other desire the secrets of the jewels,Garen-Tsen, the sadistic power behind the Gothir throne, belives the magical gems will lead him to glory, and sends the elite soldiers of the Gothir army to sack the shrine, and butcher the few defenders. They cannot lose: five thousand men against a handful of savages and a renegade Drenai warrior.

But the savages are led by one of the most brilliant strategists of the day. And the renegade is Druss the Legend.

Legend ........The Legend

Druss, Captain of the axe: The stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could of have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death.

The Fortress..

Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes.

And hope rested on the skills of that one old man...

King Beyond The Gate

A century after the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch, the people of the Drenai face a new terror - a mad emperor kept in power by the Joinings, werebeasts of awesome power, and the Dark Templars, priests of Darkness and warriors without equal: two forces of unsurpassed evil.

One man, an outsider hated by the Drenai for his Nadir blood, and despised by the Nadir for his Drenai ancestry, sets out to destroy the emperor: He is one man against the armies of chaos.

He is Tenaka Khan - the Prince of Shadows.

Quest For Lost Heroes

The Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and blood hungry hordes sweep acress the land, bringing desolation and despair. But, with the Nadir triumphant, slavers seize a young girl in the tiny realm of Gothir and a peasant boy sets off on a quest that will shake the world.

To rescue her, Kiall must cross the savage steppes and journey through the halls of hell, facing ferocious beasts, deadly warriors and demons of the dark.

But the boy is not alone. With him are the legendary heroes of Bel-azar: Chareos the Blademaster, Beltzer the Axeman and the bowmen Finn and Maggrig. And one among them hides a secret that could free the world of Nadir domination. For he is the Nadir Bane, the hope of the Drenai. .........He is the Earl of Bronze ...

Winter Warriors

The prophecy was clear. Upon the death of three kings the world will be plunged into chaos, and all the cast-out demons of history will return to bring blood and horror to the world.

Two of the kings are dead. The third, about to be born, is hunted by Demon Riders of the Krayakin, Lord of the Undead. All the terrifying forces of evil range agaist a pregnant queen at bay in a haunted forest. But she is not alone. Three warriors stand with her: the last remnants of the once proud Drenai army. Three old men, acient heroes, descarded by the king; Nogusta the swordsman, Kebra the bowman, and the hulking fighter, Bison.

The fate of the empires rest on their fading skills as they journey through a tormented world on a perilous quest to save the unborn king.

Omnibus Edition

Graphic Novel

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Drenai Tales i

Legend, King beyond the gate, Waylander

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Drenai Tales ii

Quest for Lost Heroes, Waylander 2 (In the Realm of the Wolf), The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend

due for publishing October 2002

Drenai Tales iii

The Legend of Deathwalker, Winter Warriors, Hero in Shadows

 

White Wolf (proposed release 2003)

The next project is going to be a new drenai novel called White Wolf set in the years after the Battle of Skeln, but before the siege of Dros Delnoch. The hero is a man named Skilgannon, who carried the demon possessed Swords of Night and Day. Druss the Legend will feature in the story, but not as the lead. [Having said that Druss tends to be a man who creates his own agendas, so it will be hard to hold him back]
The Sipstrassi Tales

Ghost King

Rebellion and invasion plunge Brittania into the Dark Ages.

Chaos and terror stalk the land, the king slain by traitors, the great sword of power vanished beyond the circle of mist.

Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Brigante tribesmen mass together to destroy the realm, aided by the powers of the Witch Queen and the Lord of the Undead.

Against them stands a weakling boy, and a old mountain warrior.But the boy has the blood of kings and the warrior is Culain, the legendary Lord of the Lance.

And he alone knows the dread secret of the Witch Queen.

Last Sword of Power

The soul of Uther Pendragon is chained in hell.

The sword of power is lost in the swirling chaos.

The realm is under threat from barbarian hordes - led by an Undead god from the vaults of pre-history.

And a new Dark Age is dawning over Roman Britain.

Then comes a man called Revelation, seeking a child born of a demon...Seeking the legendary Lord of the Lance... Seeking the sword to save the realm.

The Jerusalem Man The Jon Shannow Tales

Wolf In Shadow

It is three hundred years since the world toppled on its axis and civilisation was destroyed.

In this savagely reshaped world ruled by brigands and war makers, a rider seeks a lost city. Pursuing a dream to calm the violence in his soul, Jon Shannow the brigand slayer, desires only peace. But from the plague Lands emerges a fresh terror.

The Lord of the Pit and his Hellborn army seek to plunge mankind into a new Satanic era. Seemingly invincible, they make a fatal mistake. They take Shannows woman for a blood sacrifice.

And find themselves facing the deadliest warrior of the new age. Jon Shannow - the Jerusalem Man.

Bloodstone

The tyrannical rule of the Deacon and his Jerusalem Riders has unleashed upon the world a sea of bigotry and hatred, where Unbelivers and Mutants are massacred in the name of God and Peace. And the long-vanished Jerusalem Man is now considered a saint of the new order.

To speak ill of his memory is heresy.

But when the church in Pilgram's Valley is burnt to the ground, its congregation slaughtered, a rider appears and hunts down the killers. And word spreads - The Jerusalem Man is back!

The Last Guardian

While the earth quaked, a deadly power burst forth from ancient Atlantis. For a gate of time had been torn open, freeing a cataclysmic evil.

Only the last guardian, Jon Shannow, the legendary pistoleer, could shut the deadly portal. But to accomplish this he would have to find the shining Sword of God, said to be floating among the clouds in the perilous lands beyond the wall, where beasts walk like men and worship a dark goddess. As Shannow embarked on his impossible quest, demons gathered in wait.

And- somewhere- a golden-haired woman was dreaming of blood...

Omnibus Edition

Graphic Novel

The Hawk Queen

Ironhands Daughter

After the bloody battle of Colden Moor the warlike highlanders had lost their indepence.

They lived in surly subservience to the Outlanders, and olny a teenage girl survived to represent the line of kings: Sigarni.

Sigarni the silver-haired. Huntress, whore, princess. All of these she was called. But those who pierce the veil of the future knew that a leader was coming to the North - a leader descended from Ironhand, mightiest of highland kings...

The Hawk Eternal

While the warlike and heartless Aenir ravage the territory outside the mountain fastness of the clans, Sigarni, the Hawk Queen, arrives in the alternate version of her own universe through a gate in space and time. Taliesen, last of the gate keppers, has no idea why she has arrived but knows that heroes are needed...

Only Caswallon, loner, warrior and thief, realies the true extent of the danger and the horrors that his people are to face. As Taliesen tries to discover Sigarni purpose, Caswallon must unite the clans to overcome their greatest peril.

 

Greek Themed

Lion of Macedon

He is Parmenion. A hated outsider, he must fight the hardened heroes of Sparta.

He will survive. Dark forces have marked out his destiny as the most fearsome warlord the world has known.,br. He is the Lion of Macedon. The man they call death of nations will reshape the glory of Greece before he faces the wrath of hell...

 

Dark Prince

The Lion of Macedon - strategos, Parmenion. a lone hero in search of salvation and finding, instead, destiny.

The Dark Prince - the child who will become Alexander, creator of the greatest empire the world has ever known. He will conquer all. All except the Chaos spirit, the immortal evil that dwells in his soul.

Together they will be forced into other dimensions, across time, into enchanted worlds full of wonder and sorcery...

The Rigante Series

Sword In The Storm

Deep in the green mountain lands of the Rigante lies the settlement of Three Streams, whose people worship the gods of Air and Water, and the spirits of the Earth. Among them lives a boy whose destiny is written in starlight. He is Connavar, the Demonblade, born in a storm that doomed his father.

A man with the makings of greatness will always have enemies and from the start of this epic chronicle it is prophesied that the Armies of Stone will one day cross the water ... and that their coming will be like an avalanche.

Even as that terrible time draws near, another story is told. One that links the price of glory with the loss of a witch's powers, and with the abiding hurt of a broken promise. Here the strangest forces, wise and evil, play their allotted part - from the Ghost General and the malignant Morrigu to the Woods whose magic harks back to a world before the coming of Man.

Midnight Falcon

They call him Bane the Bastard - though none say it to his face. Born of treachery, his name a curse, the young boy grew to manhood among the warriors of the Rigante. They valued his skills in war, but they feared the violence in his heart.

And when, as a wolfshead and outlaw, he left Rigante lands, they breathed sighs of relief.

But Bane would return, the destiny of the Rigante in his hands, the fate of the world resting on his skills with a blade.

Midnight Falcon continues the tale of the Rigante which began in sword in the Storm, and tells the epic story of Bane, the bastard son of Connavar the King, and his quest for vengeance in a world of blood, honour, betrayal and love.

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Ravenheart

Eight hundred years have passed since Connavar.Beaten but unbowed live the Rigante. Legendary men still walk the mountains of the north, men such as Jaim Greymauch a giant Rigante fighter. The other Kaelin Ring, a youth whose deadly talents are rapidly bringing him to the atention of the Varlish overlords.
One will become Ravenheart an outlaw leader.
The other will forge a new legend and light the fires of rebellion.

stormrider

Stormrider

The fourth in the Rigante series. The Moidart now rules the Rigante with an iron fist . Only the northern clansmen are free and are strengthened by the bold outlaw Ravenheart. To the south civil war rages drenching the land in blood, with the armies slowly creeping north.
There waits Ravenheart who believes that the army of the Moidart will follow lead by his son Stormrider.
Ravenheart & Stormrider two warriors whose fate's are intertwined, both haunted by thier past, both are clansmen , both now await the final destiny of thiers & the Rigante heritage.

Other Books

Knights of Dark Renown

The Knights of the Gabala have vanished through a demon-haunted gateway between worlds, and evil days have fallen upon the realm. Murder and dark magic are abroad in the capital and the knights of dread powers surround the king.

As the horror grows there comes a rider, seeking the lost wizard Ollathair, seeking an end to his own torment. he is Manannan, the coward-knight of the Gabala who betrayed his friends in their quest to distroy the essence of evil. As the storm clouds of war gather, he rides to the Forest of the Ocean and prepares to face his darkest fears. For he must pass alone through the gates of Hell and face the truth awaiting hin there. Monsters and werebeasts, vampyres and deamons, all these he must meet with his shining sword - only to learn the secret that will sear his soul.

Morningstar

As the Angostin battle hordes surge over the southern borders of the highlands, the bandit, Jarek Mace, and his friend, the magicker and bard Owen Odellfind themselves in a country in desperate need of heroes. The invaders have no respect for persons or places, stealing and laying waste everthing in their path. Behind them sorcery is unleashed as a mad necromancer brings back to halflife the eons dead vampyre kings.

Only Mace has the courage to stand up to the Angostins and the Undead: soon he is hailed as a figure of myth, the legendary Morningstar come to save his people once more. But only one person realy knows Mace; Odell remembers how the now famous badit was once but a thief and a philanderer who would as soon cut a purse string or a throat for the price of a meal.

As the final climactic battle approaches and strange manifestations occur Odell wonders which of the two Maces will triumph: the self-serving thief or the saviour of his people, the Morningstar.

Dark Moon

The peaceful Eldarin were the last three ancient races. The mystical Oltor, healers and poets, had fallen before the dread power of the cruel and sadistic Daroth. Yet in one awesome night the invincible daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities, their armies, their terror. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy. Not a trace remained for a thousand years...

The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years and the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted and weary of bloodshead. But the formost of the Dukes, Sirani of Romark, possessed the Eldarin Pearl and was determined to unravel its secrets.

Then, on one unforgettable day, a dark moon rose above the Great northern Desert, and a black tidal wave swept across the land. In moments the desert had vanished beneath lush fields and forests and a great city could been seen glittering in the morning sunlight.From this city re-emerged the blood-hungry Daroth, powerful and immortal, immune to spear and sword. They had only one desire: to rid the world of humankid forever. Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of three heroes: Karis, warrior woman and strategist; Tarantio, the deadliest swordsman of the age; and Duvodas the healer, who will learn a terrible truth.

Echo's Of The Great Song

They were immortal, and lived like kings - even though their empire was dying. Conceited and selfish, the Avatars ruled the fallen world through magic and arcane science.

But then two moons appeared in the sky, and a terrible enemy breached the gateway between the worlds.

the blood-hungry armies of the Crystal Queen swarmed across the land, bringing devastation and terror and leaving in their wake a mountain of sacrificed dead.

as the citys faced imminent destruction, three heroes set out to destroy the enemy. Talaban, a warrior haunted by tragedy, Touchstone, the mystic tribesman seeking his lost love, and Anu, the Holy One, the Builder of Time.

And when all seemed lost, two others entered the fray.

Sofarita, the peasant girl who would inspire a legend, and the madman Viruk, who would become a god.

White Knight Black Swan

"Bimbo" Jardine is a special man - a giant legbreaker with a heart of gold, generous to his friends, feared by his enemies.

Maybe too generous and too feared, for when Bimbo takes on an Irishman claiming protection money from a friend, he doesn't realise the Irishman is in the employ of his own gandland boss Reardon.

With the inevitability of fate, Bimbo has started a sequence of events which will end in murder, betrayal, blackmail, and the uncovering of secrets long hidden.

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