39 Results for : blackguards
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The First Kill , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min
The First Kill was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Django Wexler says, "'The First Kill' is a bit of backstory for the universe of The Shadow Campaigns. It's always hard to give a proper spotlight to the villains in a novel where they don't get a POV, so I wanted to take this chance to explore that a little. The Shadow Throne implies a connection between Andreas, Duke Orlanko's brutally efficient go-to killer, and Sothe, the Gray Rose, his best agent turned bitter enemy. In this story, we get to see these two at an earlier point in their careers, and take a look at how that relationship got started." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Poe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023369/bk_adbl_023369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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His Kikuta Hands , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 23min
His Kakuta Hands was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Lian Hearn says, "'His Kikuta Hands' is set in Maruyama, the farthest city to the west in the Three Countries. It takes place behind the scenes of chapter five of Brilliance of the Moon. I'd always wanted to expand these pages where a lot happens in a short space of time. Takeo feels he must take on the Tribe and demonstrate the ruthlessness he will need to be a competent ruler. But the Tribe don't believe, firstly, that he knows where to find them and, secondly, that he will have the strength of will to deal with them. They are proven wrong." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin T. Collins. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023360/bk_adbl_023360_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Better to Live than to Die , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 36min
Better to Live than to Die was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author John Gwynne says, "The Banished Lands has a violent past, where men and giants clashed in a war for supremacy and near-extinction for the vanquished. Now men rule the land, giants little more than a memory, lurking in the wilds and dark places. This tale takes place ten years before the events of Malice, book one of The Faithful and the Fallen, within the Darkwood, a great forest that splits the western realms of Ardan and Narvon. It recounts a key moment in the life of a young bowman, Camlin, who is part of the Darkwood Brigands - a moment that has far reaching consequences for the great conflict to come." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Keating. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023359/bk_adbl_023359_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Long Kiss , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
The Long Kiss was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Clay Sanger says, "I have a special love for scoundrels. Where the line between hero and villain gets blurry, anything is possible. That's what makes them such compelling characters. When you root for the bad guy, you never know what you're going to get. 'The Long Kiss' is fundamentally a story about choices and consequences. Scoundrels by nature are well versed in that equation. Staying ahead in that calculation is how they pay the bills, after all. But sometimes ambition and deceit muddies the waters. Desire and desperation become perfect poisons. Duty and honor turn to guilt and wrath. Rising up and crumbling down, 'The Long Kiss' is a tale where all of these collide in gold and blood." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Macleod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023373/bk_adbl_023373_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Scream: A Simon Canderous Story , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 35min
Scream was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Anton Strout says, "Jumping from writing one series to the next is always bittersweet. There's the excitement of new characters and unknown tales to tell, but you're also leaving behind familiar friends. Or at least friends you've tortured for three or four books, anyway. Suffice it to say, I miss the retractable bat-swinging antics of psychometrist/paranormal detective Simon Canderous and his semi-heroic rise through Manhattan's terribly underfunded Department of Extraordinary Affairs, but he wasn't always a goody-two-shoes. Before the events of Dead To Me, Simon had to learn that 'with great power comes great responsibility' (thanks to years of Spidey reading, natch). But in Simon's case it also came with added financial perks from thievery, too." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David DeVries. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023368/bk_adbl_023368_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Taste of Agony , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
A Taste of Agony was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Tim Marquitz says, "'A Taste of Agony' is set in my upcoming fantasy series Tales of the Prodigy. It features my outlaw, eunuch assassin Gryl, the protagonist from my Neverland's Library companion story, 'Redemption at Knife's Edge'. Trapped in hostile territory just after the resolution of the Avan-Thrak war, Gryl lives off the land and the spoils of his once-ally, the chaotic Thrak berserkers. When a chance encounter with a group of renegade Shytan knights offers him a chance at a warm meal and a few nights of relative peace, and the possibility of coin in his pouch, Gryl finds himself unable to refuse. He soon learns, however, that no matter how far removed from the war he might be, the past is never far behind." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023364/bk_adbl_023364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Troll Trouble , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 42min
Troll Trouble was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author Richard Lee Byers says, "I've written several stories about Selden and plan to write many more. A former mercenary, he gave up war to settle in Balathex, the City of Fountains, and set up shop as a fencing master. But old habits die hard, and a man can use a secondary source of income when he has a habit of picking losing horses at the hippodrome. So he still hires out his sword on occasion and generally finds himself enmeshed in supernatural mysteries and fighting sorcerers, demons, and the like. "Troll Trouble" is set before the other published Selden stories, and is an origin of sorts. It relates how he first got himself established in Balathex." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023356/bk_adbl_023356_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Betyár and the Magus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 33min
The Betyar and the Magus was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author S. R. Cambridge says, "When writing, I often take inspiration from real history, especially the history that often isn't read about that often. 'The Betyár and the Magus' and the characters in it came to be because I started to read a lot about the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, a war for independence by Hungary against the Austrian Empire. Hungary was the victor in a series of early battles and looked like it was winning until the Austrian Empire allied with Russia for help. Russia, a formidable power at the time, brought it all to an end in short order. So I began to build a sort of historical-fantasy alternate universe out of the revolution and what happened before and after. 'The Betyár and the Magus' takes place six months after the end of the revolution." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023374/bk_adbl_023374_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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What Gods Demand: A Seven Forges Tale , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 45min
What Gods Demand was published in the anthology Blackguards: Tales of Assassins, Mercenaries, and Rogues. About this story, author James A. Moore says, "The Empire of Fellein has reigned in relative peace for hundreds of years. The legends told by the people speak of a first empire and the greatest city ever known to mankind, Korwa. According to the tales, Korwa was destroyed in the distant past in an epic battle so intense that it destroyed part of the world and created the Blasted Lands. There might be some truth to the legends. Not long ago, explorers from Fellein found the distant Seven Forges mountain range deep in the Blasted Lands, and also discovered, to their surprise, that the area within that range is inhabited by people called the Sa'ba Taalor. The gray-skinned people from the distant realm have come to Fellein. Since that moment, a war has been building. Swech is one of the Sa'ba Taalor, chosen by her gods to hide among the humans and do the will of her deities." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David DeVries. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023372/bk_adbl_023372_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Daft Harry and the Tiger Striped Goons: The Scrambles Family Adventures, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 147min
Eleven-year-old inventor Harry Scrambles emulates his father, John, who has successfully designed several successful farm gadgets.... But Harry's fledgling ideas, encouraged by his elder, spiteful sister, Lou, mostly end in disaster, and he is soon given the nickname Daft Harry. However, when jewel thieves turn up and throw the siblings, with their mates, into a deep pit in the woods, Harry's daft ideas turn out to be their only chance for escape. Later, chased by the two blackguards, both siblings use their finely tuned expertise in trickery in an attempt to catch the crooks, retrieve the gems, and reap a reward. Harry enlists the help of former archenemies, "The Tiger-Striped Goons", and Lou leads the brigands through a vile slurry pit. But with the desperate criminals refusing to give in, the young pranksters are forced to resort to their father's Monster-Vacuum-Blaster machine. Have they done enough to beat the pilferers, with so much at stake? Riotous skulduggery develops into a rip-roaring adventure. Conceived and set in 1970s Lincolnshire, UK. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rob Scarborough. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/129982/bk_acx0_129982_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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