The Legend of Broken, Caleb Carr
The Legend of Broken, Caleb Carr
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The Legend of Broken

Author: Caleb Carr, George Guidall, John Curless

Narrator: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Unabridged: 35 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/27/2012


Synopsis

The eagerly anticipated next novel from the bestselling author of The Alienist is available from Simon & Schuster Audio unabridged on MP3 CD and as an audio download!

With the historical storytelling brilliance of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, the hugely bestselling author of The Alienist writes a bounding epic: The Legend of Broken is an action-packed, multi-charactered tale of a medieval clash of cultures.

In Caleb Carr’s fascinating tale of the kingdom of Broken, legend meets history, science defies all expectation, and one noble soldier struggles to save a fortress city besieged by enemies within and without.

About Caleb Carr

Caleb Carr is the critically acclaimed author of The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness, The Lessons of Terror, Killing Time, The Devil Soldier, The Italian Secretary, The Legend of Broken, and Surrender, New York. He has taught military history at Bard College, and worked extensively in film, television, and the theater. His military and political writings have appeared in numerous magazines and periodicals, among them The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in upstate New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tiffany on February 03, 2013

A military historian at his finest... "Because war is not a thing separate from the mind, like the hammer or the blade... It is an expression of the mind, one used to achieve a certain object, yes, but one that bespeaks the nature of the collective mind of that people." - part three, chapter 7 (p 52......more

Goodreads review by Clif on March 21, 2013

This book is a pretty good fantasy novel populated with characters typically found in fantasy-lit: melancholic warriors, small forest people, cave-dwelling mystics, an occasional enchanted animal or bird. It's a shame that the author decided to weigh it down with make believe documentation from "one......more

Goodreads review by Skip on December 25, 2012

Little history exists about Northern Germany in the period from 500-800 AD so Caleb Carr writes a novel about a fortress city named Broken, run by a religious sect and the merchants. Less than desirable people are banished to the forest. When both are threatened by a virulent disease, military leade......more

Goodreads review by Rose on December 28, 2012

I am clearly not afraid of a thousand page plus end note tome... But. We are lucky enough to live in a time where being fans of genre fiction does not relegate us to stories about morally simple characters doing implausibly convenient (slash lucky) things to win the day. And while the premise of thi......more

Goodreads review by Dbaltaxe on March 20, 2013

I'd like to give this 2.5 stars. It was a great universe that Carr created and a fairy interesting story, but I found the storytelling to be disappointing. Told in second person present tense by an undefined mystic (I think) with a secondary and ultimately non-additive character who apparently found......more