Empire of Silence (Deluxe Hardcover)

***Special deluxe edition with sprayed edges, premium cover effects, map, new foreword, bonus content, and the short story "The Pits of Emesh"*\

Hadrian 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.

Ambitious universe-building combines with intimate character portraits for storytelling on a truly epic scale-for fans of Orson Scott Card, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Patrick Rothfuss and Jack Campbell**

It 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. The 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.

But 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. Forced to fight as a gladiator and into the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, he will find himself fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.