The Savior PB Edition

Sequel to The Heretic Book 10 in the nationally best-selling General series FROM HERETIC TO SAVIORDuisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic But where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism The people of Duisberg have a god Zentrum a supercomputer from the ancient past Zentrum has decided to avoid another collapse by preventing civilization from rising from where it is And because even a supercomputer and the powerful religion which it founded cannot block all progress Zentrum has another tool every few centuries the barbarians sweep in from the desert slaughtering the educated classes and cowing the
peasants back into submission These are the Blood Winds and the Blood Winds are about to blow again This time however there&s a difference Abel Dashian son of a military officer has received into his mind the spirit of Raj Whitehall the most successful general in the history of the planet Bellevue—and of Center the supercomputer which enabled Raj to shatter his planet&s barbarians and permit the return of civilization One hero can&t stop the tide of barbarians unless he has his own culture supporting him To save Duisberg Abel must conquer the very land of his origin and attempt to destroy the computer AI “god” who has doomed his world to an everlasting Dark Age Abel is a heretic but now he must go beyond and become—THE SAVIOR Meet the AuthorThe Army took David Drake
from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights and met exotic people who hadn&t run fast enough to get away Drake returned to become Chapel Hill&s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences Drake describes war from where he saw it the loader&s hatch of a tank in Cambodia His military experience combined with his formal education in history and Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy His books include the bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the RCN series including What Distant Deeps In the Stormy Red Sky The Way to Glory and many more His bestselling Hammer&s
Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF He often wishes he had a less interesting background Drake lives with his family in rural North Carolina More by this Author Star Trek The Original Series Savage Trade Deathstroke Vol 1 Gods of Wars (The New 52) Metaplanetary Batman Battle for the CowlTony Daniel is the author of eight science fiction books the latest of which is Guardian of Night as well as an award-winning short story collection The Robot’s Twilight Companion He is the coauthor with David Drake of General series entries The Heretic and The Savior He is also the author of Star Trek Original Series novels Devil&s Bargain and Savage Trade Daniel is a Hugo finalist for his story “Life on the Moon” which also won the Asimov’s
Reader’s Choice Award Daniel’s short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year’s best compilations Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel and the Chiller Chanel During the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFI’s Seeing Ear Theatre Born in Alabama Daniel has lived in St Louis Los Angeles Seattle Prague and New York City He now lives in Wake Forest North Carolina with his wife and two children