Swords Are My Business

Swords Are My Business
Author: Alex Bledsoe
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 941
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466854316

Alex Bledsoe introduced the world to Eddie LaCrosse, the hard-boiled but soft-hearted detective known as a "sword jockey" who, for twenty-five gold pieces a day, plus expenses, will take on any case short of murder for hire. Like Philip Marlowe in shining armor or Sam Spade with a sword, Eddie goes down his mean medieval streets trying to walk the straight and narrow in a crooked, twisting fantasy world. Over the course of four novels, LaCrosse has encountered dragons, pirates, sea monsters, goddesses, ghosts, and magic, all the while keeping his cool and doing what's right. In this collection you'll receive the complete text of the first four Eddie LaCrosse novels. The Sword-Edged Blonde When a childhood friend, now a king, asks Eddie's help in clearing his queen of a murder charge, Eddie's long-buried past refuses to stay hidden. Burn Me Deadly Someone will go to any lengths, including torture and murder, to locate the last remaining dragon eggs. But dragons aren't real, are they? Dark Jenny A poisoned apple sets off political turmoil that threatens to destroy an entire Camelot-like kingdom, and take Eddie with it. Wake of the Bloody Angel Eddie searches for the vanished pirate Black Edward Tew and his legendary treasure, but even the help of a tough former pirate queen may not be enough to save him from what he finds. Swords Are My Business also includes a sample of the fifth Eddie LaCrosse novel, He Drank, and Saw the Spider. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Third Book of Swords

The Third Book of Swords
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0979625742

The third and final novel in 'The Book of Swords' trilogy. More stories of the twelve Swords continue with The Lost Swords series. The gods, the creators of the twelve Swords, realize their error in giving powerful Swords to humans. The humans, both good and evil, are ready to fight to the death to acquire and retain the Swords. With the Swords, new ideas and new dreams have entered the world. A change is taking place that threats the gods' very existence.

The First Swords

The First Swords
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 612
Release: 1999-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312869168

Saberhagen's original trilogy is now collected for the first time in one volume. The gods have given the world 12 Swords of Power so that they might be amused as the nations battle for their possession. But they didn't know that Vulcan gave the Swords the power to kill the gods themselves.

By the Sword Sundered

By the Sword Sundered
Author: Harvey Beach
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2014-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491898933

Such a blasphemous bastardisation of a word, Commonwealth. Common meaning of, or to, everyone regardless of place or estate and wealth meaning relating to weal wholeness, prosperity, health and success. The Puritans calling the theological tyranny of all aspects of England after the regicide the Commonwealth is almost the closest to the ultimate debasement of English common parlance I can imagine. But not quite. I consider marginally worse their use of Protectorate. You dont protect rabbits by putting the most vicious and nasty weasel you can possibly breed down the warren-holes. It was bad enough the war between forty-two and forty-six lacerated England corporate in all aspects to a perilous degree. Even the most hideous wounds, if clean, can scab and scar over and the body become hale, if scarred, again. Sometimes surprisingly quickly. Take my word of honour as an ex-Officer for it. During my time soldiering I saw scores of such miraculous cases. But although that war wounded England grievous, it was the toxin of Puritanism so thoroughly rubbed into the gaping injuries during the wounding that turned England corporally and spiritually septic for over a decade thereafter. I pen these words with relief that the Commonwealth and Protectorate are now dead. Puritans are now selling up their property and leaving the country as despised and ostracised scum by the boat-load, with the generality spitting at their backs as they leave. The Americas are welcome to those that are commissioning the voyage boats and Im glad the Shipwrights are profiting from their emergency fabrication. I hope the foundling Colonies have some use for the manure, for the meadows of England dont.

The Complete Mirrored Sword

The Complete Mirrored Sword
Author: Allan Hands
Publisher: Allan Hands
Total Pages: 772
Release: 2021-12-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0645198250

What happens when the world’s worst shrew meets the world’s most formidable warrior? Answer: Mirrored Sword, a comedy as black as the Plague, as turbulent as the Wars of the Roses. She is an aspiring painter and devoted Yorkist. He is the legendary but ageing Beast of Ferrybridge – a Lancastrian stalwart! Rebellion in Lincolnshire throws them together, the Yorkist king keeps them together, and thus they must work out their destinies and England’s, in an epic story that combines laughter and tears, romance and adventure, history and make-believe, high art and vulgar entertainment: a medieval banquet, loaded with surprises, colourful characters and poetic justice. Part One, The Dance, is a journey from Lincolnshire to London, where he goes in search of a fool brother, and she goes in quest of a royal romance, the story careering through a series of revealing encounters, climaxing in treachery and mayhem at Baynard Castle, the king’s London home. Part Two, The Tour, is their return journey from London to Lincolnshire, as companions and fellow travellers of the king, when their previous encounters are even more revealing in reverse order, ending in a rising tide of bloodshed and revenge, malice and pure evil, hope and desperate self-belief, deep in the fens. The narrative represents the viewpoints of eight different characters in Part One, but Part Two concentrates on the viewpoints of just two, the hero and heroine, as they struggle to shake off, manipulate, dominate, understand and maybe accept each other. Themes include conflicting loyalties and challenging relationships associated with lovers, friends, family, pets, and political allies. Chapters are presented as 31 calendar dates in the year 1470. Front matter includes a decorative map of medieval England, showing the towns visited. Readers can track different points of view by means of a chart, bolded names heading different sections, and headers on alternate pages.

The Sword of Midras

The Sword of Midras
Author: Tracy Hickman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 076538230X

A captain in the Obsidian Army discovers a magical sword that only he can use, and is purported to have been once used by the legendary Avatars.

The Red Sword of Allah

The Red Sword of Allah
Author: Gregory Kilgore
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781440154904

September 11, 2001 was a wake-up call for the United States. Now, years later, people are getting sick and dying from what seems like any and all processed foods with each victim having differing symptoms. The food supply has been poisoned by an underground army of terrorists who have been working in the countrys food industry. The Director of Homeland Security has called in Dr. Bradford Wilson to help head the effort to battle the unknown attackers. Any food that has been processed or handled in the nations food industry is now becoming a symbolic last meal and Brad must find out the who, what, how and why of the deadly attack. As Brad leads the investigation, the fight becomes personal and draws him into an anger and hatred where he finds that anyone can become a killer. In time, the country finds the answers and begins to turn the tide, only to discover that this attack was but a precursor to the death stroke of the Red Sword of Allah that is now coming straight at them. They are now faced with saving the entire human race. The foretold Islamic Apocalypse is now a reality.

The Slave, The Sword and the Stars

The Slave, The Sword and the Stars
Author: Eric Thompson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2014-01-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1304609308

In a brutal world an outcast nun and a runaway slave overcome the challenges that come their using her wits and his sword.