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Nao­mi Novik’s bel­oved series returns, with Cap­tain Will Lau­rence and his fight­ing dra­gon Temer­ai­re once again taking to the air against the broadsi­des of Napoleon’s forces and the friendly—and some­ti­mes not-so-friendly—fire of Bri­tish sol­diers and poli­ti­ci­ans who con­ti­nue to suspect them of divi­ded loyal­ties, if not out­right tre­ason.
For Lau­rence and Temer­ai­re, put out to pas­tu­re in Aus­tra­lia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just when they are nee­ded most. But per­haps they are no lon­ger alo­ne in this opi­ni­on. New­ly allied with the powerful Afri­can empire of the Tswa­na, the French have occu­p­ied Spain and brought revo­lu­ti­on and bloodshed to Bra­zil, threa­tening Britain’s last despe­ra­te hope to defeat Napo­le­on.
And now the govern­ment that side­lined them has deci­ded they have the best chan­ce at nego­tia­ting a peace with the angry Tswa­na, who have besie­ged the Por­tu­gue­se roy­al fami­ly in Rio—and thus offer to rein­sta­te Lau­rence to his for­mer rank and senio­ri­ty as a cap­tain in the Aeri­al Corps. Temer­ai­re is deligh­ted by this sud­den rever­sal of for­tu­ne, but Lau­rence is by no means san­gui­ne, kno­wing from expe­ri­ence that per­so­nal honor and duty to one’s coun­try do not always run on par­al­lel tracks.
None­thel­ess, the pair embark for Bra­zil, only to meet with a string of unmi­ti­ga­ted dis­as­ters that force them to make an unex­pec­ted landing in the hosti­le ter­ri­to­ry of the Incan empire, whe­re they face new unan­ti­ci­pa­ted dan­gers.
Now with the suc­cess of the mis­si­on balan­ced on a razor’s edge, and fail­ure loo­king more likely by the minu­te, the unex­pec­ted arri­val of an old ene­my will tip the sca­les toward ruin. Yet even in the midst of dis­as­ter, oppor­tu­ni­ty may lurk—for one bold enough to grasp it.

Die deut­sche Aus­ga­be des Romans erscheint laut Ama­zon am 25. Juni bei Pen­hali­gon. Der deut­sche Klap­pen­text ist … deut­lich »kom­pak­ter«:

Die Bewäh­rungs­pro­be des Feu­er­rei­ters
Cap­tain Will Lau­rence und sein Him­mels­dra­che Temer­ai­re wur­den wegen Ver­rats nach Aus­tra­li­en ver­bannt. Doch nun bie­tet ihnen das Bri­ti­sche Empire die völ­li­ge Wie­der­her­stel­lung ihres Rufs, wenn sie sofort nach Bra­si­li­en auf­bre­chen, um die por­tu­gie­si­sche Königs­fa­mi­lie vor Napo­le­ons Ver­bün­de­ten zu ret­ten. Lau­rence ist zwar skep­tisch, doch wel­che Wahl hat er schon? Die Rei­se nach Rio birgt aller­dings uner­war­te­te Gefah­ren. Nicht nur wer­den Temer­ai­re und sein Rei­ter dort bereits von einem alten Feind erwar­tet. Sie gera­ten außer­dem ins Visier des so mäch­ti­gen wie grau­sa­men Inka­reichs, das nach der Macht über ganz Süd­ame­ri­ka strebt.

Regis­seur Peter Jack­son hat­te 2009 Inter­es­se bekun­det, die Roman-Rei­he zu ver­fil­men.

Cover CRUCIBLE OF GOLD Copy­right 2012 Del Rey

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