"David Drake - General 07 - The Reformer" - читать интересную книгу автора (Drake David)

(with Ben Ohlander)

BAEN BOOKS by S.M. STIRLING
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The Draka series

The Domination
Drakon
Drakas!
(forthcoming anthology)

with Jerry Pournelle:

Go Tell the Spartans
Prince of Sparta
Blood Feuds
Blood Vengeance
The Children's Hour

with James Doohan:

The Rising
The Privateer

The City Who Fought
(with Anne McCaffrey)

The Ship Avenged
Snowbrother
Saber and Shadow
(with Shirley Meier)



ONE
The High City of Solinga had been the core of the ancient town once; first a warlord's castle, then the
seat of the city council. Three centuries ago, when Solinga was capital of the Emerald League, several
million arnkets of the League's treasury had mysteriously found their way into a building program to turn it
into a shrine to the city's godsтАФto the Gray-Eyed Lady of the Stars, first and foremost.

Money well stolen and spent,Adrian Gellert thought, as the procession mounted the broad flight of
marble stairs that led to the plateau. Right hand tucked into the snowy folds of his robe, left hand holding
the gold-capped scroll that marked him as a Scholar of the Grove, he kept to the slow hieratic pace
suitable for a religious occasion. About him gulls swooped and shrieked; before him stood the
cream-white marble pillars, the golden roofs, the great forty-foot statue of the Maiden holding Her
bronze-tipped spear aloft to guide the mariners home. Behind him was the tarry workaday reality of