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The Adamantine Palace

By Stephen Deas

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| Paperback | 9780575083752

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The Adamantine Palace lies at the centre of an empire that grew out of ashes. Once dragons ruled the world and man was little more than prey. Then a way of subduing the dragons through alchemy was discovered and now the dragons are bred to be mere mounts for knights and highly valued tokens in the Continue

The Adamantine Palace lies at the centre of an empire that grew out of ashes. Once dragons ruled the world and man was little more than prey. Then a way of subduing the dragons through alchemy was discovered and now the dragons are bred to be mere mounts for knights and highly valued tokens in the diplomatic power-players that underpin the rule of the competing aristocratic houses. The Empire has grown fat. And now one man wants it for himself. A man prepared to poison the king just as he has poisoned his own father. A man prepared to murder his own lover and then bed her daughter. A man fit to be king? But unknown to him there are flames on the way. A single dragon has gone missing. And even one dragon on the loose, unsubdued and returned to its full intelligence, its full fury, could spell disaster for the Empire. But because of the actions of one unscrupulous mercenary the rivals for the throne could soon be facing hundreds of dragons ...Stephen Deas has written a fast moving and action-fuelled fantasy laced with irony, a razor sharp way with characters, dialogue to die for and dragons to die by.

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  • The Adamantine Palace, by Stephen Deas

    Home Contact us Posts Comments Stephen Deas’ The Adamantine Palace drops the reader directly into the action. In fact, flings or tumbles may be a better word considering that, within the first ten pages, a woman falls to her death from the back of a ... (read full critics)

    bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

  • Book Review: The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas

    The Adamantine Palace starts with a bang: right in its prologue, a Prince kills a Queen and in doing so, sets the story in motion. This act is a preface and a portent of what the reader can expect from the book: the machinations of power-hungry, ruth ... (read full critics)

    thebooksmugglers published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • Absolutely breathtaking. I found it really hard to put down. Full of drama and suspense but easy to read because the chapters are short.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0575083751
  • ISBN-13: 9780575083752
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Pub date: Feb 01, 2010
  • Dimensions: 1264 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others and eBook
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