Blood and Iron [Dramatized Adaptation]
Author: Jon Sprunk
Series: Book of the Black Earth #1
Narrator: John Dow, James Lewis, A Full Cast, Dylan Lynch, Thomas Keegan, David Jourdan, Steve Wannall, Ken Jackson, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott Graham, Mort Shelby, Alyssa Wilmoth, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, Andy Clemence, Kimberly Gilbert, Richard Rohan, Jeff Allin, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Christopher Scheeren, James Konicek, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, David Coyne, Thomas Penny, Christopher Walker, Drew Kopas, Nora Achrati, Bradley Smith
Unabridged: 8 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: GraphicAudio
Published: 06/03/2020
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure
Synopsis
It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the west, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son from plague. When he washes ashore, he finds himself at the mercy of the very people he was sent to kill, who speak a language and have a culture and customs he doesn't even begin to understand.
Not long after, Horace is pressed into service as a house slave. But this doesn't last. The Akeshians discover that Horace was a latent sorcerer, and he is catapulted from the chains of a slave to the halls of power in the queen's court. Together with Jirom, an ex-mercenary and gladiator, and Alyra, a spy in the court, he will seek a path to free himself and the empire's caste of slaves from a system where every man and woman must pay the price of blood or iron. Before the end, Horace will have paid dearly in both.
