{"product_id":"farlander","title":"Col Buchanan: Farlander [2010] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Heart of the World is a land in strife. For fifty years the Holy Empire of Mann, an empire and religion born from a nihilistic urban cult, has been conquering nation after nation. Their leader, Holy Matriarch Sasheen, ruthlessly maintains control through her Diplomats, priests trained as subtle predators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Mercian Free Ports are the only confederacy yet to fall. Their only land link to the southern continent, a long and narrow isthmus, is protected by the city of Bar-Khos. For ten years now, the great southern walls of Bar-Khos have been besieged by the Imperial Fourth Army.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ash is a member of an elite group of assassins, the Roshun - who offer protection through the threat of vendetta. Forced by his ailing health to take on an apprentice, he chooses Nico, a young man living in the besieged city of Bar-Khos. At the time, Nico is hungry, desperate, and alone in a city that finds itself teetering on the brink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When the Holy Matriarch's son deliberately murders a woman under the protection of the Roshun; he forces the sect to seek his life in retribution. As Ash and his young apprentice set out to fulfil the Roshun orders - their journey takes them into the heart of the conflict between the Empire and the Free Ports . . . into bloodshed and death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchanan, Col","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48796754084179,"sku":"XG80230744813","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/buchanan-col-farlander-xg80230744813-56536791875923.jpg?v=1728139811","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/farlander","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}