Death's head
Death's head
Book info: Death's head (Hardcover, 400 pages – Bantam Press, 2009) – Bantam Press, 2009. Language: Eng.
Condition: Like New
Lieutenant Sven Tveskoeg is a killing machine whose DNA marks him out as less or perhaps more than human. Hes survived everything a hostile universe can throw at him, but its not luck thats kept him alive. A lucky man wouldnt be picked out of obscurity to serve in the army of his Emperor, OctoV, a machine-human hybrid who appears to be a teenage boy but is actually immeasurably older. Maybe Svens survived out of sheer bloody-mindedness (although lets not forget his enhanced healing abilities and preternatural strength). He and his squad of auxiliaries are in Farlight, capital of the Octavian Empire, for a bit of R & R. But the emperor is missing and what begin as riots soon turn to slaughter as civil unrest erupts into civil war. And behind the double-crosses and Byzantine betrayals that threaten to topple OctoV from his throne is, of course, the U/Free, a galaxy-spanning empire with the technology of gods and the morals of schoolchildren. As anarchy takes over, Sven could choose stay low and do nothing. But when has he ever done anything that sensible?