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He saved a kingdom. Now they want him dead for it . After the miracle at Whiteout Pass, Merrik Niles finds that he’s a celebrity hero for orchestrating an impossible victory. His reward? Maybe a knighthood. Maybe a sack of gold. Nope. Archbishop Axen Fenwigg needs cash to fund his war, so he turns Merrik into a dancing bear, a hero to be paraded under the noses of the elite aristocracy along Greymond’s eastern coast. His job is to win over these nobles to King Lee’s side—the perfect use for a troublesome gadabout like Merrik. In the meantime, civil war plunges Greymond into chaos as two men each claim the throne—one a fair-haired boy, the other a hulking, scheming hunchback. The longer Greymond rips itself apart, the weaker the kingdom will be when it must finally face the looming threat on the other side of the Arrowhead Mountains. Magic, mayhem, a dash of romance, and crossed swords galore, A Rage of Sabers is Victor Gischler’s second installment in his Kingdom of Ghosts trilogy.
Author
Victor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction. Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster. He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1. Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
