Christopher Ruocchio

Un hombre contra un imperio. Una leyenda escrita con sangre.Huyendo de un destino impuesto —el de verdugo al servicio de su padre—, Hadrian Marlowe acabará varado en un mundo perdido en los márgenes

Un hombre contra un imperio. Una leyenda escrita con sangre.Huyendo de un destino impuesto —el de verdugo al servicio de su padre—, Hadrian Marlowe acabará varado en un mundo perdido en los márgenes

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world. Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.

Depuis près d'un siècle, Hadrian Marlowe sert l'Empire en guerre contre les Cielcins. Des rumeurs affirment désormais qu'ils ont un nouveau roi. Un roi différent des précédents, qui a abandonné les a

The end is nigh It has been nearly two hundred years since Hadrian Marlowe assaulted the person of the Emperor and walked away from war From his Empire His duty From the will and service of the eldritch being known only as the Quiet The galaxy lies in the grip of a terrible plague and worse the Cielcin have overrun the realms of men Now a messenger has come to Jadd bearing a summons from the Sollan Emperor for the one time hero A summons a pardon and a plea HAPSIS the Emperor s secret first contact intelligence organization has located one of the dreadful Watchers the immense powerful beings worshipped by the Pale Cielcin Called out of retirement and exile the old hero accompanied by his daughter Cassandra must race across the galaxy and against time to accomplish one last impossible task To kill a god