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Excerpt: Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker Part 5

Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.

They walked through hallways and around corners, turning this way and that, seeming to go in circles, until Idisio once again [...]

Excerpt: Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker Part 4

Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Five is here.

“Nobody knows you as a street-rat,” had been the eunuch’s first piece of advice. “Don’t act like one; nobody will peg [...]

Excerpt: Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker Part 3

Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.

The steward was a thin, sharp-faced man of no readily-apparent bloodline and a sour demeanor. He stared at Idisio as if [...]

Excerpt: Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker Part 2

Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part One is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.

Finally they stopped in front of a small grey door. Two guards with gold and silver braids looped on their sleeves [...]

Excerpt: Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker Part 1

Over a five day period, thanks to Mercury Retrograde Press, I will be excerpting portions of Secrets of the Sands by Leona Wisoker.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
Part Five is here.

Chapter One
Hee-ay, hee-ay: the cry of the water-seller in the broad and the narrow places; shass-shass-shass, the warning [...]

Excerpt: The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer

I’m in the midst of reading Michael Palmer’s The Last Surgeon, a great escapist thriller that has a tenuous science fiction connection. If you like medical thrillers/mysteries this is the kind of fiction that will get your blood pumping.

If you want to get a sense of the novel, Palmer has provided me with a pdf [...]

Excerpt: Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett (5)

Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
Part Four is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million [...]

Excerpt: Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett (4)

Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
Part Three is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. [...]

Excerpt: Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett (3)

Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
Part Two is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. Triumff is a [...]

Excerpt: Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett (2)

Over a five day period,thanks to Angry Robot Books, I will be excerpting portions of Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero by Dan Abnett.
Part One is here.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Sir Rupert Triumff. Adventurer. Fighter. Drinker. Saviour? Pratchett goes swashbuckling in the hotly anticipated original fiction debut of the multi-million selling Warhammer star. Triumff is a ribald historical fantasy [...]

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