Sweeping from Paris & Chartres to the City of Tears itself – the great refugee city of Amsterdam – this is a story of one family’s
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Details: Built up over the millennia, layer upon layer, the City is ancient & vast. Over the centuries, it has sprawled beyond its walls, the cause of constant war with neighbouring peoples & kingdoms, laying waste to what was once green & fertile. & at the heart of the City resides the emperor. Few have ever seen him. Those who have remember a man in his prime & yet he should be very old. Some speculate that he is no longer human, others wonder if indeed he ever truly was. & a small number have come to a desperate conclusion: that the only way to stop the ceaseless slaughter is to end the emperor's unnaturally long life. From the rotting, flood-ruined catacombs beneath the City where the poor struggle to stay alive to the blood-soaked fields of battle where so few heroes survive, these rebels pin their hopes on one man. A man who was once the emperor's foremost general. A man, a revered soldier, who could lead an uprising & unite the City. But a man who was betrayed, imprisoned, tortured & is now believed to be dead... Read by Simon Shepard, complete & unabridged Ideal for: Fans of fantasy & mystery stories. Approx run time is 21 hours 5 mins on 18 CDs