{"product_id":"empire-of-silence-2","title":"Christopher Ruocchio: Empire of Silence [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eHadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was not his war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives-even the Emperor himself-against Imperial orders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.","brand":"Ruocchio, Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47146913890643,"sku":"XV80756413019","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ruocchio-christopher-empire-of-silence-xv80756413019-52390404096339.jpg?v=1696186054","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/empire-of-silence-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}