About the Book
Naomi Novik’s triumphant debut, His Majesty’s Dragon, introduced a
dynamic new pair of heroes to the annals of fantasy fiction: the noble
fighting dragon Temeraire and his master and commander, Capt. Will
Laurence, who serves Britain’s peerless Aerial Corps in the thick of the raging Napoleonic Wars. Now, in the latest novel of this dazzling
series, they soar to new heights of breathtaking action and brilliant
imagination.
It is a grim time for the dragon Temeraire. On the
heels of his mission to Africa, seeking the cure for a deadly contagion, he has been removed from military service – and his captain, Will
Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason.
For Britain,
conditions are grimmer still: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached
the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleon’s prime
objective: the occupation of London.
Separated by their own
government and threatened at every turn by Napoleon’s forces, Laurence
and Temeraire must struggle to find each other amid the turmoil of war
and to aid the resistance against the invasion before Napoleon’s
foothold on England’s shores can become a stranglehold.
If only
they can be reunited, master and dragon might rally Britain’s scattered
forces and take the fight to the enemy as never before – for king and
country, and for their own liberty. But can the French aggressors be
well and truly routed, or will a treacherous alliance deliver Britain
into the hands of her would-be conquerors?
