The Legend of Broken by Caleb Carr

By Caleb Carr

"A sprawling fable saga . . . Caleb Carr boldly is going the place he's by no means long past before."--USA Today

Legend meets heritage during this spell binding novel from number 1 New York Times bestselling writer Caleb Carr. Demonstrating the wealthy storytelling, skillful plotting, and intensity of study he showcased in The Alienist, Carr has written a wildly inventive, genre-bending saga that redefines the bounds of literature.

Some years in the past, a amazing manuscript lengthy rumored to exist used to be found: The Legend of damaged. It tells of a wealthy citadel urban the place order reigns on the aspect of a sword--even as scheming factions secretly vie for keep an eye on of the encircling state. in the meantime, outdoor the city's granite partitions, an industrious tribe of exiles referred to as the Bane forages for sustenance within the wilds of Davon Wood.

At each flip, the lives of Broken's defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine: Sixt Arnem, the commonly revered and honorable head of the kingdom's strong military, grapples together with his moral sense and newfound tasks amid rumors of drawing close warfare. Lord Baster-kin, grasp of the Merchants' Council, struggles to take care of the beauty of his nation while he pursues vainglorious desires of energy. And Keera, a talented woman tracker of the Bane tribe, embarks on a deadly trip to avoid wasting her humans, enlisting the help of the infamous and very good thinker Caliphestros. jointly, they desire to special a ruinous revenge on damaged, ushering in an afternoon of reckoning while the strong partitions might be breached perpetually in a triumph of technological know-how over superstition.

Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable, Caleb Carr's long-awaited new ebook is an action-packed, multicharacter epic of a medieval conflict of cultures--in which new gods collide with outdated, technology defies all expectation, and advantage is available in many guises. Brimming with event and narrative invention, The Legend of damaged is an exciting and enchanting masterwork.

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"An first-class and outdated leisure . . . The Legend of Broken seamlessly blends epic event with critical examine and asks questions that women and men grappled with at the hours of darkness a while and nonetheless do today."--The Washington Post

"[A] sizeable attempt . . . a delusion epic . . . intended as an allegory, a cautionary story for our precarious occasions. To make his issues, Carr has summoned a dream staff of squaddies, wizards, and tiny wooded area folk."--The ny occasions e-book Review

"Carr retains the motion hurtling in addition to a gentle nutrition of ugly murders and political betrayals. And he basically wishes smooth readers to determine anything in their personal global within the political corruption and greed that finally doom Broken."--The Boston Globe

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Whenever they played for the workers, which they did frequently, the couple always closed by playing the Internationale. Always the audience would rise and cheer, even those who were not Communists; for, whatever their creed might be, they knew that this hymn meant battle against the oppressors. These New York Jews wanted to fight Hitlerism with any and every weapon they could lay hands upon. Lanny had first seen her in the midst of World War, and she had been welcoming him to the land of his fathers.

Johannes would have turned anarchist if he had thought that was a way to bring justice upon the heads of those Nazi barbarians who had murdered his son and come so near to murdering himself. Johannes would pour it out in floods, and would have been greatly pleased if he had known what use was going to be made of it. They had been mixed up with all the European tribes for a thousand years, but alas, it hadn’t done them any good. Hansi Robin, tall and dark-haired, might have stepped out of any of the books of the Old Testament; he stood before them, grave and priestlike, playing the Jewish music that he loved: Kol Nidre and Achron’s Hebrew Prayer, and Ernest Bloch’s Nigun, from the Baal Shem suite.

R. And suppose the great man happened to be too busy to see him—what then would become of an art expert’s bright dream of changing world history? “Put not your trust in princes,” the psalmist had advised, and Lanny was not heeding the warning. They wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and at the same time to keep the country out of war. When they discovered that these aims were incompatible, they were in a predicament, and what wonder if their words one day contradicted the words of the previous day, and if their actions were not always in accordance with the campaign platforms of their party?

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