The Crown Tower (Riyria Chronicles Series #1)

by Michael J. Sullivan

Overview

Two men who hate each other. One impossible mission. A legend in the making.

Hadrian Blackwater, a warrior with nothing to fight for, is paired with Royce Melborn, a thieving assassin with nothing to lose. Hired by an old wizard, they must steal a treasure that no one can reach. The Crown Tower is the impregnable remains of the grandest fortress ever built and home to the realm's most prized possessions. But it isn't gold or jewels that the wizard is after, and if he can just keep them from killing each other, they just might succeed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316243704
Publisher:	Orbit
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Series:	Riyria Chronicles Series , #1
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	48,592
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Michael J. Sullivan has lived in Vermont, North Carolina, and Virginia. He worked as a commercial artist and illustrator, founding his own advertising agency in 1996, which he closed in 2005 to pursue writing full-time. The Crown Conspiracy is his first published work. He currently resides in Fairfax, Virginia with his wife and three children. The author's website can be found at www.riyria.com and on twitter @author_sullivan.

Editorial Reviews

Hadrian Blackwater, a fighter who claims to be done with violence, meets Royce Melborn, an assassin hired by an unknown party to protect Hadrian and to whom the warrior takes an almost instant dislike. When a boy is executed for a crime Royce has committed, Hadrian's dislike becomes hatred—until the enemies are forced to work together to commit a seemingly impossible burglary at the behest of an old wizard. The author of the Riyria Revelations (Theft of Swords; Rise of Empire; Heir of Novron), which chronicle the adventures of Blackwater and Melborn as an established pair, sets his latest series opener 12 years earlier, describing the initial meeting between the two antiheroes. Sullivan's characters are reminiscent of other sword and sorcery (or sword and sword) pairings: Michael Moorcock's Elric and Moonglum, Frtiz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Mercedes Lackey's Tarma and Kethry. VERDICT Fans of the original Riyria series should enjoy this return to familiar characters and places.

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