Snare: a novel of the far future
β Scribed by Katharine Kerr
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2014;2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 518 KB
- Edition
- UK
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0007387229
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β¦ Synopsis
A gripping fantasy adventure from the author of the Deverry series, set far in the future on the strangely beautiful but inhospitable planet Snare. The Kazraks arrived eight hundred years ago from the Homelands, determined to found a pure society and live simple lives based on the teachings of the three prophets. But the despotic rule of the Great Khan leads a small band to take drastic action. Following information from Yarl Soutan, a mysterious sorcerer from the far away Cantons, Captain Idres Warkannan and his nephew Arkazo set off to find the Great Khan?s younger brother, Jezro, and bring him back to stage a coup. But first they must cross the purple grassy plains inhabited both by the peace-loving comnees, and by the terrifying ChaMeech, intelligent beasts who regularly raid their borders. Meanwhile Zayn Hassan, a loyal member of the Chosen, the Great Khan?s deadly secret service, is well on his way to successfully infiltrating a comnee in order to cross the plains and the...
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