{"product_id":"empire-of-silence-by-christopher-ruocchio","title":"Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic.\" —James S.A. Corey,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of The Expanse novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss.\" —Library Journal (starred)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHadrian 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was not his war.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eForced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006313877677,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0577\/3364\/4461\/files\/9780756419264_a982a.jpg?v=1778717761","url":"https:\/\/underbrushbooks.com\/products\/empire-of-silence-by-christopher-ruocchio","provider":"Underbrush Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}