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A MINT and UNREAD copy. First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout. Price still on dustjacket. “The civil war that has torn England apart between King Charles I and Parliament is nearing its bloody conclusion – and in the English countryside, a stranger seeks his old love and finds there is a son whom he has never seen. You would be excused, perhaps, for thinking that this is the introduction to a thrilling historical novel. And you’d be dead right. Yet this is not the history you know, for the world has turned on to a new and deadly path. With breathtaking imagination Ben Jeapes has wrenced the familiar flow of English history out of its course and made it into something else, something entirely other. There is a third force, an entirely alien force – the Holekhor – who have martial powers of their own, religious leaders who command mysterious and strange forces, and who bring with them technology that should not have been seen in England for another three hundred years…” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH