Eric Van Lustbader
Prolific New York writer Eric Van Lustbader has been best known in the past for his modern-day Ninja thriller series set in Japan and his fantasy series, The Sunset Warrior Cycle. His current epic future fantasy series, the Pearl Saga, has proven very popular with fans.
More recently, Lustbader was honored by Robert Ludlum's estate in being chosen to continue the Jason Bourne series, authoring The Bourne Legacy. His newest book, The Testament, is a religious thriller along the lines of the Da Vinci Code.
The Pearl Saga has been favorably compared with Raymond E. Feist's Midkemia books - if you're a Feist fan, you may want to check him out, and vice versa.
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The
Ring of Five Dragons - Pearl Book 1 This astonishing first volume opens as the Kundalan people have suffered for a century under the viciously oppressive, technologically-superior V'ornn invaders. In the resulting crisis of faith -- why hasn't their goddess Miina saved them? -- Kundalan religion has fallen under the control of evil forces from within who forbid the teaching of traditional sorcery, pretending to have no magic of their own. The V'ornn's mysterious leaders, the Gyrgon, know better, and search for the lost Ring of Five Dragons, the key to the door of the fabled Kundalan Storehouse, and perhaps to Kundalan sorcery as well. But misused, the Ring is the trigger of seemingly inexorable annihilation for V'ornn and Kundalan alike. Now from among the oppressed must arise the hero of prophecy, the Dar Sala-at, who alone can wield the sorcerous power to save the world. Thus begins a huge epic rooted in the conflict between spiritual and technological cultures. The twisting plot raises difficult and provocative moral questions in the course of a constantly surprising, sometimes shocking, fantastic adventure that will transport fantasy readers to new heights of enthusiasm, and make them ask for more. |
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Veil of a Thousand Tears - Pearl Book 2 With the help of her friends, Riane, the prophesied redeemer known as the Dar Sala-at, saved Kundala from annihilation, preserving natives and V'ornn invaders alike. Together, the companions avenged terrible crimes and secured the Ring of Five Dragons, but their struggles have only just begun. The Ring averted doomsday, yet it did not open the magical Storehouse Door as expected. That sorcerous treasury remains sealed because of the spell cast by Giyan and her sister to migrate Annon Ashera's male V'ornn psyche into Riane's dying Kundalan female body. By combining them into a single being, it saved them both and fulfilled the prophecy that the Dar Sala-at would be "born at both ends of the cosmos." But the spell also breached the Abyss, releasing daemons imprisoned there aeons ago by the Goddess Miina who could wreak havoc on Kundala. Now the fiends must be vanquished, not only so the quest for the Pearl can continue, but to save Giyan, who has been possessed by the archdaemon Horolaggia. Their only hope is the fabled Veil of A Thousand Tears. |
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Mistress
of the Pearl - Pearl Book 3 "Lustbader has created people you will never forget: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. With each new volume, The Pearl has bloomed and ramified like a gorgeous flowering vine. The Mistress of the Pearl is the best yet, and those who have read the previous books will find new sources of excitement and enlightenment, but this is also a great place to begin catching up with the series, as the Pearl shines ever brighter." description. |
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Sunset
Warrior Sequence by Eric Van Lustbader Beneath the ice-locked surface of the planet the Freehold is ruled by the sword. In the subterranean darkness the old order crumbles as the life-giving Machines of the Ancients stop one by one. Nameless savagery stalks the lower depths and the broken cries of the tortured haunt the War Lord's chambers ... In a doomed land there is one man whose spirit is not crushed, whose sword is as lethal as it is swift. Loathed by the law, he is a master of the ancient arts of love and war. He is a rebel and the lover of the majestically beautiful K'reen. He seeks a quest into the void and beyond. He is the Sunset Warrior. Books in the Sunset Warrior Sequence series: The Sunset Warrior (1977) Shallows of the Night (1978) Dai-San (1978) Beneath an Opal Moon (1980) Dragons on the Sea of Night (1997) |
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China
Maroc Series by Eric Van Lustbader Jake Maroc is the top agent for the Quarry, the secretive government agency. Nichiren, Jake's sworn enemy, is a cold killer with a deadly secret. Shi Zilin is a wily Communist minister, a survivor of eras in turmoil. Which one of them will emerge the true Jian--the consummate warrior, the man who excels, the supreme master of the arts of love and combat, strength and wisdom? Four ancient pieces of jade are the key to unlocking the grand scheme of the Jian. The price is Hong Kong--glittering jewel that sets the KGB, the Communist Chinese, and the Americans in a deadly battle. Books in the China Maroc series: Jian (1986) Shan (1988) |
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Nicholas
Linnear Ninja Series by Eric Van Lustbader This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all... Books in the Nicholas Linnear series: Ninja (1981) Miko (1984) White Ninja (1990) The Kaisho (1993) Floating City (1994) Second Skin (1995) |