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Crucible of Gold
Author: Naomi Novik
Series: Temeraire #7
Narrator: Simon Vance
Unabridged: 9 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC
Published: 07/06/2012
Category: Fiction - Fantasy - Historical
Synopsis
Naomi Novik’ s beloved series returns, with Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to
the air against the broadsides of Napoleon’ s forces and the friendly—and sometimes not-so-friendly—fire of British soldiers and
politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason.
For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just when
they are needed most. But perhaps they are no longer alone in this opinion. Newly allied with the powerful African empire of
the Tswana, the French have occupied Spain and brought revolution and bloodshed to Brazil, threatening Britain’ s last desperate
hope to defeat Napoleon.
And now the government that sidelined them has decided they have the best chance at negotiating a peace with the angry
Tswana, who have besieged the Portuguese royal family in Rio—and thus offer to reinstate Laurence to his former rank and
seniority as a captain in the Aerial Corps. Temeraire is delighted by this sudden reversal of fortune, but Laurence is by no means
sanguine, knowing from experience that personal honor and duty to one’ s country do not always run on parallel tracks.
Nonetheless, the pair embark for Brazil, only to meet with a string of unmitigated disasters that force them to make an
unexpected landing in the hostile territory of the Incan empire, where they face new unanticipated dangers.