Despite this, tiny beads of sweat glinted in the bristles of his short, black hair. He lay quite still and completely naked on the centre of an elliptical stone slab which occupied roughly the centre of a square, cold chamber. As Ronin and Stahlig, a medic and friend, converse with each other, we glimpse Ronin’s past and learn more about the brewing war in Freehold. In the following excerpt, Ronin recovers from a beating administered by other Bladesmen. RELATED: 8 Powerful Post-Apocalyptic Books As tensions escalate underground, Ronin embarks on a journey that takes him to the tundra surface of the Earth on the path to find peace for his people. When a war looms over the Freehold, Ronin finds himself at the center of the conflict and unable to choose a side. In this new underground society known as the Freehold, lords called the Saardin maintain order in a feudal-like system where they use the Bladesmen, a group of skilled samurai, as their muscle.Īmong this Bladesmen is Ronin, a lone wolf warrior who lives by his own terms. The Sunset Warrior takes place in a world where the entire planet has frozen over, and the survivors of this ecological disaster are forced to take refuge in the Earth’s crust. From the same author who continued the legacy of the Jason Bourne series, The Sunset Warrior is the first installment in Lustbader’s well-crafted universe, and explores themes like class and power through a sword and sorcery lens. Eric Van Lustbader’s Sunset Warrior Cycle is a post-apocalyptic five-book series that transports readers to an underground world ruled by the elite.
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