

Even after the kobolds steal the artifact, Stryke and the majority of his warband know that they could not return empty handed, so they choose to pursue it. Yet they aren’t exactly rebels without a cause, if you’ll excuse the allusion. After being sidetracked by a bit of revelry at their victory and being ambushed by kobolds, they go from being the Queen’s premier troop to being outcasts, thieves, and public enemies. Find out more about the orcs at the Wolverines, a war band of fierce orcs lead by Stryke, head out on a mission to retrieve an artifact for their queen, they didn’t know that the world as they knew it would be toppled on edge. He received the LeFantastique Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Literature in April 2007. A journalist for national and specialist publications, and the Internet, he was the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for London listings magazine Time Out for six years, and subsequently reviewed popular science titles for the magazine. He was also Forbidden Planets first manager, and helped establish and run the New York branch. Before taking up writing full-time in 1981, he co-owned and managed West London bookstore Bookends, and managed specialist SF bookshop Dark They Were and Golden Eyed. His books have been published in over twenty countries. About the Author Stan Nicholls is the author of more than two dozen books, most of them in the fantasy and science fiction genres, for both children and adults.

This book will change the way you feel about Orcs forever. Thankful to the orcs born to fight, destined to win peace for all.

Thankful that it was me, not you, who bore the sword. A creature to be hunted down and slaughtered like a beast in the fields. To you I am a monster, a skulker in the shadows, a fiend to scare your children with. About the Book Fantasys bad guys finally get their due in this fast moving, action-packed tale of Orc valor and human treachery.Orbit Book Synopsis Fantasys bad guys finally get their due in the first book of this action packed tale of Orc valor and human treachery.
