| ISBN |
9780575115200 (paperback) |
| Name |
Alder, Mark author. |
| Title |
Son of the night / Mark Alder. |
| Published |
London : Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, 2017 |
| ©2017 |
| Description |
426 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
"Angels, demons war. And Lucifer desires his freedom..."--Cover. |
| Summary |
France is on its knees. The battle of Crecy saw its angels torn from the sky by the english dragon, the flower of its nobility killed or captured. Charles the Bad of Navarre finds himself blamed for the loss. Out of allies on earth, desperate for revenge on those who have cast him inside, he will play Heaven and Hell against each other to claw his way to the French throne. Mark Alder takes his history of the 100 years war into France as the war between Heaven and Hell swallows up the ambitions of both the French and English crowns.As the armies mass around Crecy the rivalries between Lucifer, Satan and God become ever deeper and more violent. Combining a cast of larger than life yet real characters and a truthful, deeply researched take on the religious beliefs of the time Mark Alder is embarked on a truly unique historical fantasy that will ensure you never see the 100 Years War and the history of medieval Europe in the same way again. |
| Subjects |
Charles -- II, King of Navarre, 1332-1387 -- Fiction |
| Crecy, Battle of, Crecy-en-Ponthieu, France, 1346 -- Fiction |
| Good and evil -- Fiction |
| Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453 -- Fiction |
| Witches -- England -- Fiction |
| Demonology -- Fiction |
| Devil -- Fiction |
| France -- History -- House of Valois, 1328-1589 -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Fantasy fiction |
| Alternative histories (Fiction) |
| Series |
Banners of blood 02. |
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