Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One

Empire of Silence: The Sun Eater: Book One"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic." James S. A. Corey, New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse novels "This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss." Library Journal (starred) Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy. It was not his war. The galaxy

"This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss." --Library Journal (starred)

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxy-spanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of space opera and epic fantasy.

It was not his war.

The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders.

But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster. He was not even a soldier.

On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe starts down a path that can only end in fire. He flees his father and a future as a torturer only to be left stranded on a strange, backwater world.

Forced to fight as a gladiator and navigate the intrigues of a foreign planetary court, Hadrian must fight a war he did not start, for an Empire he does not love, against an enemy he will never understand.