Now that you’ve taken a look at the review, enjoy this excerpt from Saladin Ahmed’s Throne of the Crescent Moon, out today from DAW Books!:
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron- fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings.
When these few — Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, “the last real ghul hunter in the great city of Dhamsawaat,” Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla’s young assistant, and Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band — learn that the murders and the Falcon Prince’s brewing revolution are connected, the companions must race against time-and struggle against their own misgivings-to save the life of a vicious despot. In so doing they discover a plot for the Throne of the Crescent Moon that threatens to turn Dhamsawaat, and the world itself, into a blood-soaked ruin.
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