- Knights and knighthood, Mercenary troops, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general
The Red Knight has stood against soldiers, armies and the might of an empire without flinching. He's fought on real and magical battlefields alike, and now he's facing one of the greatest challenges yet. A tournament, in which the flower of the nobility will ride against each other for royal favor and acclaim. It's a political contest which the Red Knight has the skill to win. But the court of Alba has been infiltrated by a dangerous faction of warlike knights, led by the greatest knight in the world: Jean de Vrailly. And the prize he's fighting for isn't royal favor, but the throne of Alba itself ...
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Miles Cameron
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 592
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316212304
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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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