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Title: The Emperor's Knife
Subtitle: Book One of the Tower and Knife Trilogy
Author: Mazarkis Williams
Narrator: Paul Boehmer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-30-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 20 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Epic
Publisher's Summary:
There is a cancer at the heart of the mighty Cerani Empire: a plague that marks each victim with a fragment of a greater design. Geometric patterns spread across the skin, until the victim dies in agony or becomes a Carrier, doing the bidding of an evil intelligence. The lost prince Sarmin, the emperor's only surviving brother, lies locked in a hidden room. As the pattern draws closer to the palace he is at last remembered: now he awaits a bride, Mesema, a Windreader from the northern plains.
She is accustomed to riding free across the grasslands and finds the Imperial Court stifling, but she soon realizes the politicking is not a game. It is deadly earnest. Eyul, the imperial assassin, is burdened by the atrocities he has committed. As commanded, he bears the emperor's Knife to the desert in search of a cure for the pattern-markings.
As long-planned conspiracies boil over into open violence, the enemy moves towards victory. Now only three people stand in his way: a lost prince, a world-weary killer, and a young girl from the steppes who saw a path in a pattern once, among the waving grasses.
