Новинки Брайана Макклеллана

Demir Grappo je vyděděnec – vzdal se života plného bohatství a moci a zřekl se svých povinností generála, guvernéra a syna. Když je jeho matka brutálně zavražděna, musí se Demir vrátit z vyhnanství, aby se domohl svého místa v čele rodu, a při vyšetřování odhalil pravdu, že boží sklo, magická síla, která udržuje civilizaci v chodu, dochází. Musí najít spojence a postavit se mocným cechovním rodům, jež hrají zákulisní hry a snaží se vytěžit jakékoliv zbytky božího skla. Pod tím vším Demir odhalí neviditelné spáry něčeho mnohem silnějšího, co ohrožuje říši. Blíží se válka – válka, která se nepodobá žádné jiné. A Demir a jeho sebranka přátel jsou tím jediným, co stojí v cestě konci života, jak ho svět zná.

Демир Граппо – добровольный изгнанник. Столкнувшись с предательством на войне и получив тяжелую моральную травму, он расстался с богатством и властью, отказался от обязанностей полководца, правителя и сына и удалился в провинцию, где рискует бесславно окончить свои дни.
Все меняет жестокое убийство его матери, видного имперского политика. Демир возвращается в Оссу, столицу империи, чтобы занять место главы семьи и раскрыть преступление, и внезапно узнает, что во всем мире уже исчерпаны запасы сырья для годгласа – магического стекла, без которого немыслимо существование цивилизации. А это означает, что он должен срочно заключить союзы, собрать под свое знамя друзей и соперников, дать отпор могущественным семьям-гильдиям, пытающимся прибрать к рукам остатки драгоценного сырья… Он должен готовиться к войне, которая затмит все прежние войны.
Брайан Макклеллан известен читателям как создатель популярного военно-фэнтезийного цикла «Пороховой маг».

Первый роман и повесть из цикла «Glass Immortals». Демир Граппо — добровольный изгнанник. Столкнувшись с предательством на войне и получив тяжелую моральную травму, он расстался с богатством и властью, отказался от обязанностей полководца, правителя и сына и удалился в провинцию, где рискует бесславно окончить свои дни. Все меняет жестокое убийство его матери, видного имперского политика. Демир возвращается в Оссу, столицу империи, чтобы занять место главы семьи и раскрыть преступление, и внезапно узнает, что во всем мире уже исчерпаны запасы сырья для годгласа — магического стекла, без которого немыслимо существование цивилизации. А это…

Magiczne szkło, którym można zabić i uleczyć. Młody mag-dowódca z głową pełną ideałów. Splądrowane miasto, morderstwo w biały dzień, genialny, wynalazek, który może zmienić oblicze świata i śmiertelnie niebezpieczne śledztwo w paszczy wielkiej polityki. Oto historia, w której wątki splatają się niczym ledwie widoczna pajęczyna a każdy uśmiechnięty przyjaciel może okazać się jadowitym pająkiem.

Magie ist eine begrenzte Ressource – und sie wird knapp!
Demir Grappo ist ein Ausgestoßener: Er hat seinem Leben als reicher, angesehener Mann, seinen Pflichten und seiner Familie den Rücken gekehrt. Nun fristet er sein Dasein als Gauner, heimatlos und einsam. Doch als seine Mutter brutal ermordet wird, muss Demir aus dem Exil zurückkehren, um seinen Platz als Familienoberhaupt einzunehmen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass sie zu viel wusste: Jene Macht, die die Zivilisation in Gang hält – das Götterglas – geht zur Neige.
Nun muss Demir unter alten Freunden und Feinden Verbündete finden, den mächtigen Gildenfamilien entgegentreten, die bloß daran interessiert sind, an sich zu raffen, was noch übrig ist. Ein Krieg steht bevor – ein Krieg, der keinem vergangenen gleicht. Und nur Demir und seine bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe Außenseiter können vielleicht noch verhindern, dass das Leben, wie sie es kennen, für immer zu Ende geht.

Twelve-year-old Montego al'Bou is an orphan, a provincial peasant boy left alone by the recent death of his grandmother. Possessing nothing more than his grandmother's cudgel, he strikes out to the capital where the influential Grappo have offered to bring him up in the luxury of an Ossan guild-family. He finds his welcome frosty, his new home full of confusing responsibilities. He quickly discovers that the greatest sin in the capital is to be born without money, and the classist elite will not hesitate to remind him of his humble origins. Montego dreams of being his own man, of making it in the cudgeling arenas of the Empire's deadly…

Demir Grappo is an outcast―he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.

Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.

Demir Grappo is an outcast―he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out.

Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only interested in making the most of the scraps left at the table and uncover the invisible hand that threatens the Empire. A war is coming, a war unlike any other. And Demir and his ragtag group of outcasts are the only thing that stands in the way of the end of life as the world knows it.

Сборник рассказов и повестей по книжной вселенной "Порохового мага", Брайана Макклеллана

The Dynize have unlocked the Landfall Godstone, and Michel Bravis is tasked with returning to Greenfire Depths to do whatever he can to prevent them from using its power; from sewing dissension among the enemy ranks to rallying the Palo population.
Ben Styke's invasion of Dynize is curtailed when a storm scatters his fleet. Coming ashore with just twenty lancers, he is forced to rely on brains rather than brawn -- gaining new allies in a strange land on the cusp of its own internal violence.
Bereft of her sorcery and physically and emotionally broken, Lady Vlora Flint now marches on Landfall at the head of an Adran army seeking vengeance against those who have conspired against her. While allied politicians seek to undo her from within, she faces insurmountable odds and Dynize's greatest general.

The country is in turmoil. With the capital city occupied, half a million refugees are on the march, looking for safety on the frontier, accompanied by Lady Flint's soldiers. But escaping war is never easy, and soon the battle may find them, whether they are prepared or not.

Back in the capital, Michel Bravis smuggles even more refugees out of the city. But internal forces are working against him. With enemies on all sides, Michael may be forced to find help with the very occupiers he's trying to undermine.

Meanwhile, Ben Styke is building his own army. He and his mad lancers are gathering every able body they can find and searching for an ancient artifact that may have the power to turn the tides of war in their favor. But what they find may not be what they're looking for.

It is the height of the Gurlish Wars. Sergeant Tamas, a young infantryman in the Adran Army, struggles to keep his squad alive despite the blundering incompetence of their superior officers. Not only does Tamas have the curse of being an ambitious commoner in an army where rank is purchased rather than earned, he is also a powder mage. His magical ability to manipulate gunpowder is frowned upon by officers and feared by Privileged sorcerers.

When the Adran Army is about to give up on the siege of an enemy fortress, Tamas seizes upon the opportunity to prove his worth as a strategist and mage. But breaking the enemy on his own won’t be easy, no matter how strong he is.

Young war hero Ben Styke commands a colonial garrison in a sleepy Fatrastan town. It’s a well-deserved quiet posting and Styke intends to keep the peace despite rumblings of discontent across the continent.

But peace is difficult to maintain on the frontier. Taxes imposed by the far away Kez government, and their heavy-handed methods of enforcing them, have the people on edge. When the governor’s cruel brother stops for the night in Fernhollow, Styke is forced to protect the people of his town in a brutal escalation that threatens to destroy everything—and everyone—he has fought for.

Occurs twelve years before the events in Sins of Empire.

A world on the cusp of a new age... The young nation of Fatrasta is a turbulent place -- a frontier destination for criminals, fortune-hunters, brave settlers, and sorcerers seeking relics of the past. Only the iron will of the lady chancellor and her secret police holds the capital city of Landfall together against the unrest of an oppressed population and the machinations of powerful empires. Sedition is a dangerous word... The insurrection that threatens Landfall must be purged with guile and force, a task which falls on the shoulders of a spy named Michel Bravis, convicted war hero Mad Ben Styke, and Lady Vlora Flint, a mercenary…

The capital has fallen...
Field Marshal Tamas has finally returned to Adopest, only to find the capital in the hands of a foreign power. With his son Taniel presumed dead, Tamas must gather his beleaguered forces and formulate a plan to defeat the Kez - no easy task when you're outnumbered and can't tell friend from foe.
The army is divided...
With their enemy bearing down on them, the Adran command is in disarray. Someone, it seems, is selling secrets to the Kez. Inspector Adamat is determined to flush out the traitor, but as the conspiracy unravels, he will learn a horrifying truth.
And all hope rests with one man...
Taniel Two-Shot, the powder mage who shot a god in the eye, is on the run. He possesses the sole means of defeating the Kez, but to do so he must evade treachery at every turn. If he fails, Adro will fall.