{"product_id":"2940013751170","title":"The Petronicus Legacy (Omnibus Edition)","description":"This three-book e-omnibus contains the covered and unabridged first three novels in Peter Tomlinson’s The Petronicus Legacy series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe unique collection spans ten generations’ struggle in an unidentified land and at an unspecified time in ancient history. It shows wisdom stand against dark superstition, courage against savage brutality, hope against almost certain defeat. It is the story of the indomitable human spirit.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eEach book is a stand-alone novel in its own right but, as with all series, far more satisfying if read in sequence. (Not to mention that the cost of this e-omnibus represents almost a 50% saving on buying the novels separately.) A fourth in the series, The Life of Nistal, will be released by BeWrite Books soon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Stones of Petronicus:\u003cbr\u003eA new-born baby is left naked and exposed to die on a city wall while his father is hanged for petty theft a few feet away amid the cheers and hoots of a crazed mob.\u003cbr\u003ePetronicus, an itinerant healer and man of wisdom, takes the babe to heart and together they begin a quest for knowledge, groping through a maze of magic and madness to find answers in the cruel and mysterious ancient world.\u003cbr\u003eThe boy grows to manhood in strange lands where a chosen few risk death in their search for truth, bitterly opposed by ruthless rulers and puppet priests who strive to enslave their subjects in a perpetual Dark Age of superstition and suspicion.\u003cbr\u003eThe heart-warming, honest but complex simplicity Petronicus and his adopted son share leave the reader wiser than when he joined them on their remarkable journey.\u003cbr\u003eNot since the Fables of Aesop has a book like this been written. And Tomlinson wraps the sage advices in the tales Petronicus tells in a story as intriguing and exciting as any high-octane thriller – and with characters so real you’ll meet them time and again in your dreams … and your nightmares.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of Kadrik:\u003cbr\u003eKadrik’s time is a terrible time. The land is ravaged by plague and famine, savaged by desperate, starving renegades, terrorized by the mysterious race of Men Half-Made, and in the grip of crippling superstition.\u003cbr\u003eHere, fatherless Kadrik grows to manhood and to the chilling realisation that he – armed only with ancient stories he has committed to memory and a few shards of strangely marked broken pottery – holds the clue to salvation.\u003cbr\u003eIn this self-contained sequel to his acclaimed The Stone of Petronicus, Peter Tomlinson sets his second tale in the saga ten lifetimes on when, after a long, dark age of stagnation, the land is in its death throes and Kadrik must break the hold of a powerful but backward brotherhood of scribes to save it.\u003cbr\u003eTomlinson follows Kadrik, with his insatiable thirst for knowledge, through a troubled young adulthood as precocious apprentice to the wise men of his community to the discovery of jealously guarded secrets ... and on a perilous mission to reveal the hidden truths that are his people’s only slim chance of survival; secrets sealed by the death of his mysterious and legendary ancestor in the mists of tribal memory.\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of Kadrik is an unforgettable journey of profound wisdom, rare courage and breathtaking adventure from a world class story-teller whose magical pen leaves a memory on each and every page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Voyages of Delticos:\u003cbr\u003eThey are four – the scribe, the outcast, the stranger and one only half-human. But the storm-lashed little band in its pathetic wooden boat is the last hope of a dying people devastated by plague and famine and ravaged by a desperate army of marauding cutthroats.\u003cbr\u003eDelticos, Kadrik, Bantius and the Man Half Made battle tyranny and lies, epidemic and dark superstition armed with only raw courage and the wisdom of ages to save a doomed race from extinction.\u003cbr\u003ePeter Tomlinson throws us back into the mists of memory when the earth was young, yet old; simple, yet complex; gentle, yet violent, in a satisfyingly self-contained novel that is also the third of his acclaimed Petronicus Legacy series.\u003cbr\u003eThe Voyages of Delticos is the latest in a ten-generation saga in which sages and warriors stand shoulder-to-shoulder in a war against ignorance and savagery to save the ancient world from an eternal dark age.\u003cbr\u003eA book in which not only the story and its characters are memorable, but what they say … \u003cbr\u003eThe appendix of collected sayings that follows this novel and its predecessors is worthy of Aesop.\u003cbr\u003eAnd that, perhaps, is the real Petronicus Legacy.","brand":"BeWrite Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158795043056,"sku":"2940013751170","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013751170_p0.jpg?v=1763589775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013751170","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}