{"product_id":"2940170559619","title":"Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater, Book 1","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 livesamp;mdash;even the emperor himselfamp;mdash;against Imperial orders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier. Fleeing his father and a future as a torturer, Hadrian finds himself stranded on a strange, backwater world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fighting a war he did not start, for an empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105035403504,"sku":"2940170559619","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170559619_p0.jpg?v=1769904487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170559619","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}