Download or read book Tan Skulks written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tan Skulks is a man on a mission. Except he’s not really a man and now he’s not sure what his mission is any more. Summoned to the ancient city of Hardened to investigate a series of murders, he finds that the grisly deaths are only a tiny part of the city’s problems. While a vicious beast stalks the streets, a Rat God is trying to subvert the city. Wizards and assassins lurk in the most unwelcome of places. Now the indomitable Skulks must follow a series of leads to find out who or what is behind this catalogue of mischief. As a Wielder, he is never far from trouble—much of it of his own making. Using his powers of stealth and a not-quite-human ability to drink, steal, cheat and fleece his way through a city full of cynical citizens, Skulks must race against time to solve the mystery. Can he do it and escape with his thieving mitts intact? Tan Skulks is a unique fantasy tale of detective work, thievery and magic, with added doses of humour, larceny and burglary. This book was originally published under the author name Max Anthony.

Download or read book To Steal from a Demon written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having dispatched the recent threat to the ancient city of Hardened with a steel toe-cap up the rear end and the pointy bit of a dagger in its eye, the Wielder Tan Skulks finds himself promoted to high office. With new responsibilities come new opportunities and Skulks finds himself challenged by mad wizards, a master thief and on top of that, someone is most definitely trying to kill him. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s a top-secret mission which only a man of Skulks’ calibre has any hope of completing. Dastardly miscreants are everywhere and it’s a good job Skulks is one of them, because it’s going to take all his powers of cunning, guile, stealth and outright thievery to emerge from this one moderately unscathed. Can he face the Demon King and come up smelling of roses and stolen coins? This book was originally published under the author name Max Anthony.

Download or read book A Thief in the Palace written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tan Skulks is a thief, but now he’s been asked to assassinate a king. A brief stop in the city of Jingus becomes much more involved than Skulks had bargained for. An unexpected meeting with two men sends him on a dangerous mission - one that he can’t possibly refuse and doesn’t dare fail. Wizards and demons are vying for control of the city and when everyone’s trying to kill each other, it’s not easy to decide who is friend and who is foe. Fortunately, in a situation like this, there is always the opportunity for a man versed in the noble arts of thievery to abscond with a bulging sack of someone else’s property. All roads lead to the Queen’s palace, where there’s plenty of chance for adventure. Can Skulks once more save the day? A Thief in the Palace is the fourth instalment in the exciting and humorous Wielders series. This book was previously published under the author name Max Anthony.

Download or read book The Limbs of the Dead written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the Wizards’ Conference finished for another year, the Wielder Tan Skulks hopes for a break from all things magical. But his quiet life doesn’t last long - a new threat looms and it’s much, much worse than a baboon-summoning mage. Thirsty dead have begun to roam the streets and everything seems to be growing spider legs all of a sudden. Are these the symptoms of something greater than they appear? As Skulks investigates, all signs point to evil doings a-happening, with a practitioner of the dark arts on the loose. It’s dog eat dog out there and the city needs its favourite thief more than it’s ever needed him before. Can Skulks step up to the plate and defeat the mysterious figure that hopes to conquer the city? This book was originally published under the author name Max Anthony.

Download or read book Suns of the Aranol written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aranol. Death comes to everything. With tenacity and fearless determination, the human Confederation has fought against the overwhelming forces of the Vraxar. Still the aliens keep on coming. Following the events on New Earth, a chance sighting presents an opportunity too good to ignore. One of the Vraxar’s remaining capital ships – Ix-Gastiol – is located in close orbit around a star. Fleet Admiral Duggan prepares to strike against the mightiest of the alien vessels. With a strong fleet of warships assembled and an Obsidiar bomb to back them up, he believes success is within reach. However, the Vraxar have existed for millennia and Ix-Gastiol has overseen the extinction of a hundred species. This will be no easy mission. When everything goes badly, catastrophically wrong, it’s left to Captain Charlie Blake and Lieutenant Eric McKinney to put it right. Trapped within the endless depths of an alien spaceship, they must lead a small squad to achieve the impossible and somehow finish what an entire fleet failed to accomplish. Ix-Gastiol holds clues for the resourceful to find. What Blake and McKinney unearth could be the most important discovery of the war, but only if they can escape with the information. Suns of the Aranol is a high-action science fiction adventure and the fifth book in the Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book Guns of the Valpian written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain John Duggan and his crew are stranded deep in hostile terrritory. Their spaceship, the ESS Crimson is damaged beyond repair. Enemy warships hunt them, eager to locate the vessel which has caused so much damage to their military. All seems lost. Duggan is not a man to go down without a fight. Determined to take matters into his own hands, he leads his squad across the surface of an inhospitable planet in order to make a raid upon an enemy base. What happens there sets in motion a series of events which carry Duggan and his men towards a prize of inconceivable value. Nothing worth having comes easy – a single error will result in failure and the deaths of his soldiers, as well as denying humanity the greatest of gifts. Duggan has made a promise to get his squad home and there’s only one way for him to succeed. The Valpian awaits. Guns of the Valpian is a science fiction adventure and the sixth book in the Survival Wars series.

Download or read book God Ship written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Ship. The tormentor of worlds. For thousands of years, the Vraxar have brought ruin and misery across the universe. Each species they find has met the same fate – extinction and conversion into new soldiers for their ranks. An upstart race – humanity – has wiped out the aliens’ advance fleet. The Vraxar will not give up - they must clear a way through Confederation Space in preparation for their future wars. Captain Charlie Blake is always in the wrong place at the right time. He’s given a mission – take a heavily-armed warship and investigate an anomaly on a distant planet. Blake and his crew locate a catastrophically-damaged enemy Neutraliser, and there’s no record of an engagement with human forces. Lieutenant Eric McKinney and his troops are left with the task of getting inside and finding answers. What they discover deep within the huge spaceship gives an idea of the horrors to come. The Vraxar have summoned one of their capital ships. Ix-Gorghal has arrived and even with assistance from an incredibly-powerful Ghast battleship, it will take every ounce of Space Corps firepower, ingenuity and plain old guts to survive the first punishing encounters. God Ship is a high-action science fiction adventure and the third book in the Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book Mission Eradicate written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mission: Eradicate. Kill or be killed. The discovery of the Vraxar planetship – Aranol - has revealed to the Confederation how much they are outgunned by the invading aliens. The Space Corps’ successes to date will count for nothing if the largest spaceship in the known universe is allowed to reach human territory. Fleet Admiral John Duggan is not a man to sit on his hands while there is a chance to act. He sends Captain Charlie Blake on a daring mission deep into Estral Space, to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Aranol and also to rescue the lost battleship Ulterior-2. Blake and his crew aren’t alone - Lieutenant Eric McKinney and his squad are along for the ride and they’re itching to get involved. What Blake finds is a long-forgotten war, still raging with incredible intensity. Surrounded by enemies, it will take every ounce of his ingenuity to achieve victory. Where ingenuity fails, there are other, more direct options. His spaceship, the ES Cataclysm, is equipped with experimental and potentially devastating weaponry, as the Vraxar will soon discover. The Aranol has existed for millennia and overseen the fall of a thousand empires. It will not go down without a fight. Mission: Eradicate is a high-action science fiction adventure, which concludes the Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book Bane of Worlds written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his successful mission to recover the missing warship ESS Crimson, Captain John Duggan finds himself unredeemed in the eyes of his superiors. His duties resume and this time he’s given something easy - escort a cargo ship to a distant planet and bring it home safely. But war is never so predictable and a straightforward mission becomes something much more important. The outcome may well determine the future of humanity. Someone has terrible plans for the ESS Crimson and Duggan is about to find himself party to endless destruction. Even as worlds die, a new threat is waiting on the horizon. Bane of Worlds is a universe-spanning sci-fi adventure, which continues the Survival Wars series.

Download or read book Mission Nemesis written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One last mission. It’s a promise familiar to Captain John Duggan. Each final battle has another following it, with another after that. They come to him with the inevitability of death. His latest task seems no different to the others before it. As events progress, Duggan begins to believe – he starts to see how his life might change at the end of it and how the lives of billions in the Confederation may be saved if he succeeds. This time, his superiors plan no less than the destruction of the Helius Blackstar itself. Struggling with hints of betrayal from the most unlikely of places, Duggan sets off on this most ambitious of missions. To survive, he must fight his way through a series of tense battles against a fleet of enemy warships in the harshest environments imaginable. Before he can achieve victory, he must also face the deadliest opponent from all his long years in service. The Class 1 Neutraliser Excoliar is out there in Confederation Space, and until it’s defeated humanity will forever be at risk. Mission: Nemesis is a high-action science fiction adventure and the seventh book in the Survival Wars series.

Download or read book Earth s Fury written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth’s Fury. A gun to shatter a god ship. The human Confederation has provided unexpected resistance to the Vraxar invading forces, but now the price must be paid. The mighty enemy warship Ix-Gorghal has discovered the location of humanity’s populated worlds and its arrival in New Earth orbit promises death for the billions living there. At first, it seems the invaders will have everything their own way. They send in troops and deploy a ring of satellites to isolate the planet from the main comms network. After that, it should all be plain sailing…. On the New Earth Tucson military base, there are personnel who will never accept defeat – men and women who will keep fighting even when the cause seems lost. Lieutenant Eric McKinney is one of them. An unexpected message from a lone fleet warship high above the planet sends him on a mission to rescue the only man on New Earth with the activation codes for two unfinished warships on the Tucson base – the battleship Ulterior-2 and an experimental gun called Earth’s Fury. Fleet Admiral John Duggan is the man with the keys. He’s got a mission of his own and if it succeeds, it will ensure total annihilation for both sides. Duggan can see no other way out. Meanwhile, Captain Charlie Blake has other problems. In order to help the people of New Earth, he’s forced to defy orders, putting his life and his future in jeopardy. He’s one of the few men with the skill and audacity to get Earth’s Fury into orbit – assuming it will even fly. It won’t be easy. The Vraxar are a cruel and unpredictable foe, and at the first sign of a threat, they will surely destroy New Earth without hesitation. Earth’s Fury is a high-action science fiction adventure and the fourth book in the Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book Terminus Gate written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their recent victory over an incredibly powerful alien foe, Captain John Duggan and his crew are expecting some downtime while the ESS Crimson is refitted. It is not to be. In a war for survival, the Space Corps’ best officer can’t be permitted to languish on base with his feet up. Soon after landing on planet Atlantis, Duggan gets the call once more. This time there’s to be no holding back – his superiors want him to take the fight to the enemy, rather than wait it out in Confederation Space. Given a promise that this mission will be his last, Duggan ventures into the unknown – he must fly through the Helius Blackstar and see what lies on the other side. What he finds there is worse than he could possibly have imagined and it will take every ounce of his ingenuity to return with the secrets he discovers. Terminus Gate is a high-action science fiction adventure and the fifth book in the Survival Wars series.

Download or read book Chains of Duty written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Captain John Duggan, it seems like war never ends. Each success brings another mission and more death. Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps’ newest warship – a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology. A prospector craft, the SC Lupus, has gone missing and his superiors want to find out what happened and the aggressors dealt with accordingly. The wrecked spaceship is soon found. However, nothing is as it seems. What Duggan finds on a distant planet turns everything on its head. With the survival of humanity potentially in the balance, Duggan – a man forever chained by duty – is required to take the biggest risk of all. The man who has faced everything is about to come up against an opponent he cannot possibly defend himself against. Chains of Duty is a science fiction adventure and the third book in the Survival Wars series.

Download or read book Negation Force written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation Force. A planet without power, locked down by an alien war fleet. The human Confederation has known an unprecedented time of peace, unheard of in a universe where every other species is not only technologically advanced, but also incredibly hostile. The good times are about to end. Out on the fringes, the planet Atlantis is attacked by an alien foe remembered only by the oldest members of the Space Corps. These aliens – known as Vraxar – are abominations of flesh and metal, driven to exterminate every other life form in the universe. Now it’s humanity’s turn. In the ruins of the Tillos military installation, Sergeant Eric McKinney is determined to fight back and find out why the Vraxar have come. Meanwhile, a response fleet is mustered with the intention of facing the enemy head-on. It’s a mission with no hope of success. As events unfold, it becomes apparent the Vraxar have secrets which give clues to their purpose. The answers are more shocking than anyone could have imagined. The lives of strangers are intertwined and together they must try and salvage something from this first exchange in a war that will not end until one side is utterly defeated. Luckily, the Tillos base holds secrets of its own…a warship with an exceptionally powerful Obsidiar core is contained within an underground bunker. It is the only hope for Atlantis… Negation Force is a science fiction action and adventure book which begins The Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book Inferno Sphere written by Anthony James and published by Anthony James. This book was released on 2024-05-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inferno Sphere. A bomb to end all bombs. The ruthless species of biomechanical aliens known as Vraxar have been driven away from the Confederation planet Atlantis. They are not defeated and their unprovoked attack has given them the means to locate the rest of the Confederation worlds. However, the Vraxar are not predictable and their next move is completely unforeseen. This time, the Juniper orbital is the target. Lieutenant Eric McKinney is onboard, waiting for his next deployment. The arrival of the Vraxar pushes him once more into action and he finds himself in the unenviable position of fighting a battle which is already lost. There is a chance to pull off a victory of sorts – to come back from the brink of total disaster. McKinney must once again team up with Captain Charlie Blake to try and inflict a stunning, unexpected defeat on the Vraxar. It will not be easy. Meanwhile, out on the fringes of Confederation Space further trouble is brewing, adding complications to an already perilous situation. Where there is conflict, there is opportunity. The opening stages of the war have begun and humanity will not sit back tamely and wait for death. Alliances must be formed and ancient, terrible weapons brought out of storage. When it comes to the Vraxar, nothing will be straightforward… Inferno Sphere is a high-action science fiction adventure and the second book in the Obsidiar Fleet series.

Download or read book The Races of Europe written by Steven Coons Carleton and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1939-01-01 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shadows written by Troy A. Hill and published by Troy A. Hill. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as "A Coil of Shadows". The enemies of the Goddess still haunt Britain... Undead enemies – the kind Maria doesn’t want to face, but only her unique skills are capable of matching – still, haunt Britain. Barrow after barrow lay open from their intrusion. What are they searching for? What are they? Why are they in Britain? Maria, Gwen, and Seren begin a journey for answers. A journey among the paths of the dead. Figures from their past emerge, with even more questions. Shadows of the past begin to coil around the trio. The enemy of the goddess is moving toward an endgame, but can the trio decipher what it is? Will they survive, keep their secrets, and unravel the Whispers of Darkness that will shake the foundations of Britain again? They uncover shadows best left hidden as the Penllyn saga takes another step toward its endgame. Shadows is the sixth book in an Epic Dark Fantasy adventure. If you like rich historical settings, a diverse cast of characters, and a dash of snarky humor, then you’ll love Troy A. Hill’s captivating series. Grab your copy today. This series includes: The author has combined the Cup of Blood and the Penllyn Chronicles series into one series. The books have been rebranded with new covers and titles, but the story is still the same. Books in the series are: Preludes Blood Soul Blink Whisper Shadows Chaos Sovereign * Coming winter 2024