Bøger af Alex Janaway

The sequel to 'Redoubt' - an action-packed fantasy where Captain (retired) Jon Forge is tasked with travelling to the far city of Karnak Karnassus to break out the Paternal, the keeper of all the secret deals and dirty secrets of scores of kingdoms, countries and businesses. Leading a team of rogues, he is driven by more than duty - he is doing it to avenge the death of his best friend.

On the shores of Northern Africa the British Army is born. The English Civil War is finally over. King Charles II has been restored to the throne and he has grand plans. The Portuguese colony of Tangier has come into his possession and with it the key to power in the Mediterranean. But to hold it he needs an army and all he has are the remnants of the forces that once fought for, and against, the monarchy. They must become the vanguard of his ambitions. James Fitzwilliam is a rogue and a royalist. Taken from his Scottish homeland by his father to fight for the monarchy-in-exile, he has grown up knowing nothing but a soldier's life. Now Fitzwilliam and a band of royalist and parliamentarian troops must learn to fight together if they are to survive this strange new land and the wily and dangerous Moors who hold dominion over it. The test will be greater than they know, and their battles will deliver a lasting legacy...

The Possession. A terrible curse that feeds off magic-taking and turning any who channel arcane energy into creatures of nightmare: demons, who infect their victims with a virulent sickness. The survivors huddle behind defended settlements never staying out after nightfall, for that is when the demons walk the land. In order for humanity to survive, magic is outlawed. All children are subjected to the Testing, to discover if they have magical ability. If so, they are put down without mercy or regret. In the Duchy of Albair, a girl called Enna fails her Testing and is forced to flee. Yet she has no magic. Instead she has within her the ability to block magic, to nullify its power. Men sworn to defend humanity against the Possession hunt her, fearful of what she may become. But the Possessed also seek her, for they know what she represents - hope. And they will not easily give up their new world, nor suffer her presence within it.

After a short and bloody war on foreign soil, the Expeditionary Army of Ashkent is preparing to return home. Captain Jon Forge and his company, however, are assigned one more task - to oversee a workforce of enslaved Bantusai tribesmen as they replace a long lost bridge across the River Rooke, in the mountainous northern borders. With construction already underway, a band of fleeing trappers brings news of a fast approaching barbarian horde and Forge quickly realises his de facto commander, the devious Duke Burns, has send him and his men to their deaths. Despite the overwhelming odds them, Forge decides to stay and fight, buying time for the Ashkent Army to prepare for the coming invasion. With the help of a motley crew that includes the enigmatic Bantusai, the wily trappers and a lacklustre bureaucrat-cum-wizard named Portal, Forge and his men hastily set about rebuilding a dilapidated fort that stood guard over the river. Their doom, it seems, is inescapable: their redoubt - a patched-up tower house - will surely be their tomb... Redoubt is a hard-nosed fantasy in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie and Glen Cook's Black Company series. Praise for Redoubt Redoubt is a cracking fantasy adventure featuring a strong plot and well-realised characters and locations. The pieces fit together like dovetail-joints and the plain-speaking narrative fits the story perfectly. Recommended. Fantasy Book Review