FIRE IN HIS HANDS

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Summary: A dessert adventure in the world of the "Dread Empire"
Review: The Fire in His Hands is set in Cook's Dread Empire millieu and provides some of the early back story for that series. It tells details the meeting Bragi and Haroun, and of their encounters with the prophet El Murid.

The book is a must read for those who have enjoyed the Dread Empire series, but it also stands alone a an entertaining novel. The rise of El Murid has obvious overtones of the historicla Islamic expansion, and Cook provides a fast-paced, enjoyable book which manages to pull together political intrigue, religious fanaticism and military conflict and turn them into a pleasant diversion. Cook has a fine talent for breathing life into characters, and he puts it to good use here.

Rating:
Summary: A dessert adventure in the world of the "Dread Empire"
Review: The Fire in His Hands is set in Cook's Dread Empire millieu and provides some of the early back story for that series. It tells details the meeting Bragi and Haroun, and of their encounters with the prophet El Murid.

The book is a must read for those who have enjoyed the Dread Empire series, but it also stands alone a an entertaining novel. The rise of El Murid has obvious overtones of the historicla Islamic expansion, and Cook provides a fast-paced, enjoyable book which manages to pull together political intrigue, religious fanaticism and military conflict and turn them into a pleasant diversion. Cook has a fine talent for breathing life into characters, and he puts it to good use here.