- Knights and knighthood, Mercenary troops, Abbeys, Fiction
Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men-- or worse, a company of mercenaries-- against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it. The Red Knight has all three. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job ...
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Miles Cameron
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 665
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Hachette Audio, Orbit
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781399600231
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Note: Miles Cameron is a pen name used by [Christian Cameron][1] for his fantasy and science fiction works. [1]: https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL1517482A
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