The Tale of Krispos (Books 1-3) by Harry Turtledove
By Harry Turtledove
The awesome tale of a boy who rises from poverty and trouble to turn into the best chief his global has ever known.
KRISPOS RISING
Born a ragged peasant, Krispos lives at the relatives farm till crushing taxes drove him from the land he calls domestic. With just a unmarried gold piece to his name–a reward from a nomad chieftain who claimed it carried magic–Krispos heads for the imperial capital, Videssos, and right into a international of peril and possibility.
KRISPOS OF VIDESSOS
Krispos’ reign as emperor of Videssos indicates each signal of being short and extremely bloody–for hassle is brewing. Civil struggle has erupted, and as insurgent troops take the sphere opposed to the untried emperor, outland raiders are sweeping down from the northlands in a tide of carnage. How lengthy can Krispos wish to maintain head and crown together?
KRISPOS THE EMPEROR
A unusual heresy has taken root within the land and shortly dissent flares into open insurrection as Krispos faces his maximum problem: to save lots of his empire from tearing itself aside, he wages an evermore determined warfare opposed to an implacable foe, atmosphere brother opposed to brother and father opposed to son.
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There were wooden planks laid here and there as walkways. There were haphazard piles of paper cement sacks, some full, some empty. There were more open expansion joints. There were strings of bare light bulbs, turned off. Empty wheelbarrows, crushed soda cans, spools of cable, unexplained lengths of lumber, piles of crushed stone, silent concrete mixers. There was grey cement dust everywhere, as fine as talc, and the smell of damp lime. The man with the rifle walked on in the darkness until he came close to the new northeast corner.
He drove inside and thumbed the button again and the door came down after him. He shut the engine off and sat still for a moment. Then he got out of the van and walked through the mud room and on into the kitchen. He patted the dog and turned on the television. Paramedics in full body armour went in through the back of the library. Two of them stayed inside to check for injuries among the sheltering crowd. Four of them came out the front and ran crouched through the plaza and ducked behind the wall.
The shell case has got fingerprints on it,' he said. 'From when he loaded the magazine. Same thumb and index finger as on the quarter in the parking meter and on the traffic cone. So we can tie the crime to the gun, and the gun to the ammo, and the ammo to the guy who used it. See? It all connects. The guy, the gun, the crime. ' 'I think he was a military shooter,' Emerson said. 'All military personnel are in the databases. ' It was a matter of forty-nine minutes. A desk guy knocked and entered.