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24 books with the same feel
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Christian Cameron · 425 pages
Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold - newly knighted on the battlefield outside the gates of Florence - can look forward to a lucrative career as a sword for hire in the endless warring between Italy's wealthy city states. But when a message comes from Father Pierre de Thomas, Grand Master of the Order of St John - better known as the Hospitallers - Sir William knows he has no choice but to leave his
Mercenaries
Jack Ludlow · 345 pages
"Six brothers, the sons of Tancred de Hauteville, prepare to experience their first taste of battle ... 1033, the Norman/French border. They have been trained since birth to become great warriors, following in their father{u2019}s footsteps. As knights, they have but one true purpose: to fight. But denied service with their duke, they are forced to take employment as mercenaries; their unequaled b
1356 (Grail Quest #)
Bernard Cornwell · 448 pages
The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.
The Disorderly Knights
Dorothy Dunnett · 503 pages
Back in Scotland, Crawford establishes a trained force of mercenaries and encounters Joleta Malett, a beautiful and wilful teenager. Through her brother, Graham Reid Malett, a knight of St John of Jerusalem, (who will also be a central figure in the next book of the series, Pawn in Frankincense), Crawford is enticed to Malta to help the Order's defence against the Turkish forces of Suleiman. This
The Whale Road
Robert Low · 376 pages
A band of brothers, known as the Oathsworn, committed only to each other, feared by many, rises again.
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy · 337 pages
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indi
Memnon
Scott Oden · 595 pages
A thrillingly-told, action-packed historical novel about a near-forgotten colossus of the ancient world. . . .He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic
Orcs
Stan Nicholls · 515 pages
A sojourn in their idyllic homeworld has left Stryke and the Wolverines lacking purpose. So when an opportunity for bloodletting appears, Stryke seizes it. Utilizing mysterious artifacts, the Wolverines are transported to Acurial, a world where the indigenous orc population is cruelly subjugated by human invaders. Upon their arrival, Stryke's band joins with Acurial's emerging resistance movemen
All Systems Red
Martha Wells · 156 pages
The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and likes to watch unrealistic soap operas. As it spends more time with some caring humans, it starts developing feelings that it does not care for.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
George R.R. Martin · 355 pages
"Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. These never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consc
Twelve
Jasper Kent · 480 pages
Autumn, 1812. As Napoleon's army marches relentlessly into Russia, twelve mercenaries are enlisted by a group of Russian officers to turn the tide of the war. As winter closes in, the true, horrrific nature of the twelve and the nightmared unleashed begins to unfold.
The Hard Way
Lee Child · 512 pages
In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex--military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth--and save two innocent lives--is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way.... Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electri
Star Soldiers
Andre Norton · 457 pages
The galactic civilization that considered Earthmen fit only to be their mercenaries in their constant conflicts - and Earthmen were not allowed to go into space in any other role - which wound up with the Earthmen rebelling against the galactic oppressors. After long centuries the last vestiges of the Galactic Union is falling apart and Earthmen are out to make their own stamp upon the galaxy I
Monster Hunter Siege
Larry Correia · 368 pages
"When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some missing hunters, he didn't realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in MHI's history. Their men are being held prisoner in a nightmare dimension only reachable through radioactive ruins of a monster-infested war zone. And it is also the home base of the powerful creat
Grunge
Larry Correia, John Ringo · 307 pages
"When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission for him. He's a Marine: he chooses the mission. Eventually, it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called 'Monster Hunters International' and protect people from things that g